fallow

About 1.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
2. noun Uncultivated land.
3. noun The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
4. adjective Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
5. adjective Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
6. adjective Inactive; undeveloped.

   a fallow period in one's career

7. verb To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
8. adjective Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

   a fallow deer or greyhound

Similar words

unploughed unplowed unbroken undeveloped unexploited wild setaside set-aside idle uncultivated

Often followed by

deer land for and period periods fields in ground

Word family

fallowed fallowing fallowness fallownesses fallows