harvest home


noun
  1. the bringing home of the harvest.

  2. the time of harvesting or of gathering in the harvest.

  1. an English festival celebrated at the close of the harvest.

  2. a song sung as the harvest is brought home.

Origin of harvest home

1
First recorded in 1565–75

Words Nearby harvest home

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How to use harvest home in a sentence

  • I will simply give his account of the manner in which they celebrated what in England would be called a "harvest home."

  • Agricultural machinery has abolished the festival of the harvest home.

    Trent's Last Case | E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
  • Everything had some reference to Hallowe'en or to harvest home, and the children were not too young to appreciate this.

    Marjorie's Busy Days | Carolyn Wells
  • It has its origin in the casual ribaldry of the uindemiatores: in the rudely improvized dramatic contests of the harvest-home.

  • It was such weather as we have at "harvest home," and it was truly a "harvest home" throughout the whole Vega.

    Mexico and its Religion | Robert A. Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for harvest home

harvest home

noun
  1. the bringing in of the harvest

  2. mainly British a harvest supper

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