Fallow

Quick meaning: Fallow is a noun meaning (agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

Meaning

(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

More Meanings

1. (agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.
2. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
3. (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
4. (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
5. (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
6. (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
7. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

Example Sentences

a fallow deer or greyhound

a fallow period in one's career

How does your fallow greyhound, sir?

After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked.

Word Forms

• fallows
• fallowing
• fallowed

Synonyms for fallow

Depending on context, synonyms include abeyant, dormant, latent, undeveloped, unploughed, unbroken.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unploughed, unplowed, unbroken, undeveloped, unexploited, wild.

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