牧場|ぼくじょうbokujou[0]heiban (flat)
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- nounfarm (livestock); stock farm; ranch; station
- nounpasture; meadow; grazing land
- Synonym牧野ぼくやWrittenWritten/formal prose for open grazing land; found chiefly in poetry and prose and in place names.
- Related草地くさちNeutralNeutral. Simply open land covered with grass; it does not have to be used for grazing livestock.
- Related草原そうげんNeutralNeutral. Vast grassland such as 「モンゴルの草原」; suggests a natural landscape and need not involve livestock at all.
- Related牧草地ぼくそうちWrittenWritten/formal prose. Land where pasture grass grows or is cultivated; leans toward an agricultural land-use category rather than a working ranch.
- Related放牧地ほうぼくちWrittenWritten/formal prose, technical: land set aside for grazing animals. In everyday speech 「牧場」 is the usual word.
- Related牧地ぼくちWrittenWritten/formal prose for grazing land; examples are scarce, and 「牧場」 is what people say in daily life.
- Related牧まきWrittenRead 「まき」. Grassland where livestock, especially horses, are kept free-range; rare today, surviving mostly in place names.
- Related採草地WrittenWritten/formal prose and an agricultural technical term: grassland grown for cutting, as hay, rather than a ranch where animals graze.
Use 「牧場」 for a place where livestock are raised by grazing, as in 「牧場で牛を飼う」. For natural grassland say 「草原」 or 「草地」; for agricultural land-use terms turn to 「牧草地」.
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