Fallow Definition

fălō
fallows
adjective
Left uncultivated or unplanted.
Webster's New World
Characterized by inactivity.
A fallow gold market.
American Heritage
Untrained; inactive.
Webster's New World
Pale-yellow; brownish-yellow.
Webster's New World

Inactive; undeveloped.

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noun
Land plowed but not seeded for one or more growing seasons, as to kill weeds or make the soil richer.
Webster's New World
The plowing of land to be left idle in this way.
Webster's New World
The act of plowing land and leaving it unseeded.
American Heritage
The condition or period of being unseeded.
American Heritage

(agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.

Wiktionary
verb
To plow (land) without seeding it afterward.
American Heritage
To leave (land) unplanted after plowing.
Webster's New World
To plow and till (land), especially to eradicate or reduce weeds.
American Heritage
idiom
lie fallow
  • to remain uncultivated, unused, unproductive, etc. for a time
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fallow

Noun

Singular:
fallow
Plural:
fallows

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Fallow

  • lie fallow

Origin of Fallow

  • From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealu, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (compare West Frisian feal, Dutch vaal, German falb, fahl), from Proto-Indo-European *polʷos (compare Lithuanian pal̃vas 'sallow, wan', Serbo-Croatian plâv 'blond, blue', Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós) 'grey'), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- 'pale'.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English falow, from Old English fealh (“fallow land”), from Proto-Germanic *falhaz (compare East Frisian falge, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English falow from Old English fealh fallow land

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fallow Sentence Examples

  • The hill fields are left fallow for ten years after two years' cultivation.

  • Nicholas standing in a fallow field could see all his whips.

  • The seventh day of rest was parallel to the seventh year of release and of the fallow field.

  • The summer fallow with repeated ploughing was its basis.

  • Ray, who made a tour along the eastern coast in that year, says, " We observed little or no fallow ground in Scotland; some ley ground we saw, which they manured with sea wreck.

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Words Starting With

FFAFAL

Words Ending With

WOWLOW

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fallow

Words Starting With F and Ending With W

Starts With F & Ends With WStarts With FA & Ends With WStarts With F & Ends With OW

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With F6 Letter Words Ending With W