English Explanatory Dictionary

fallow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
  2. Uncultivated land.
  3. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
adj
  1. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  2. Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
  3. Inactive; undeveloped.
verb
  1. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
adj
  1. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

Pronunciation

/ˈfæləʊ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fallow.wav fălʹō /ˈfæloʊ/

Word forms

fallow fallows more fallow most fallow fallowing fallowed

Etymology

[Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.] From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).

Synonyms

dormant latent abeyant

Derived words

bastard fallow cropped fallow dead-fallow ecofallow fallow-break fallowchat fallow crop fallow-field fallowfinch fallow ground fallow land fallow syndrome green fallow pin-fallow rag-fallow summer fallow winter fallow fallow chat fallow finch fallowist apple-fallow fallowness lay fallow lie fallow fallowed fallower fallowing re-fallow summer-fallow thry-fallow trifallow twifallow twyfallow fallow deer
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