Definition of "fallow" in English

noun

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

2. (agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.

3. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

adjective

1. (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.

2. (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

3. (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.

   • a fallow period in one's career

verb

1. (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

adjective

1. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

   • a fallow deer or greyhound