Meaning

4 senses
  1. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.

    brach, brachliegend, unbestellt

    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season

  2. Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

  3. (figuratively)Inactive; undeveloped.

    a fallow period in one's career

    brachliegend, unproduktiv

    undeveloped but potentially useful

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

    a fallow deer or greyhound

    falb, braungelb, hellbraun

Examples

6 sentences
  1. My field has turned into fallow land.

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  2. That fallow paddy field does not yield anymore.

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  3. Every seven years we let the land lie fallow.

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  4. Their field has not been used, it has been left fallow.

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  5. This field is fallow.

    deDieses Feld liegt brach.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 3
of land, left unseeded:
inactive, undeveloped:
light brown; dun:

Origin

[Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.] [Alt: A photograph of a light brown deer.]

[Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]

[Alt: A photograph of a light brown deer.]

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Forms

more fallow, most fallow
Comparativemore fallow Lesson
Superlativemost fallow Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
figuratively inactive:abeyant

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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