1 (of farm land) not used for growing crops, especially so that the quality of the land will improve:
Farmers are now paid to let their land lie fallow.
2 (of a period of time) when nothing is created or produced; not successful:
Contemporary dance is coming onto the arts scene again after a long fallow period.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fallow is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fallow a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fallow is tagged as adjective.
Does fallow appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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