harvest

[ hahr-vist ]

/ ˈhɑr vɪst /

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noun

Also har·vest·ing. the gathering of crops.

the season when ripened crops are gathered.

a crop or yield of one growing season.See Synonym Study at crop.

a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: a harvest of wheat.

the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.

verb (used with object)

to gather (a crop or the like); reap.

to gather the crop from: to harvest the fields.

to gain, win, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, etc.): She has finally harvested the rewards of her dedication.

to catch, take, or remove (animals), especially for food: Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.

to collect (any resource) for future use: to harvest solar energy; spammers who harvest email addresses.

to extract (an organ or tissue) from a living or dead body, as for transplantation or research: to harvest a kidney; to harvest embryos.

verb (used without object)

to gather a crop; reap.

OTHER WORDS FOR harvest

5 accumulation, collection, product, return, proceeds.

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Origin of harvest

before 950; Middle English; Old English hærfest; cognate with German Herbst “autumn”; akin to harrow¹

OTHER WORDS FROM harvest

har·vest·a·ble, adjectivehar·vest·a·bil·i·ty, nounhar·vest·less, adjectivehalf-har·vest·ed, adjective

post·har·vest, adjectivepre·har·vest, nounre·har·vest, verbun·har·vest·ed, adjective

Words nearby harvest

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How to use harvest in a sentence

Late summer is a good time to start garlic for the springtime harvest, as well as cool-weather crops like kale, chard, broccoli, beets, and peas.
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The majority of the sales are related to barter trading with farmers getting fertilizers and chemicals before planting in exchange for part of the harvest.
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When compared to data collected after the harvest, her predictions proved fairly accurate.
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They lack early information that could help figure out how factors such as drought might affect the amount of food that would later be available for harvest.
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The project she came up with helps people in low-income nations predict their crop harvests.
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After 50 years, members of the Huna Tlingit people can finally collect harvest sea gull eggs again in Glacier National Park.
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These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans.
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Their “livelihoods and harvest,” as Brown describes it, were stripped away from them.
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Everything in life, from governance to harvest to warfare, was suffused with sacred meaning until the advent of the Enlightenment.
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Roberts estimated that close to 95 percent of all wineries have returned to harvest production.
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But the withering mildew was now breathed forth, that was intended to blast this goodly harvest.
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They are religious who reap a great harvest among souls in this newly-christianized land.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
I may be tempted to postpone my retirement, and for a while longer to continue to gather the golden harvest that ripens round me.
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A rich harvest was offered in New France, where the natives lived almost like animals, without any knowledge of God.
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When the harvest time arrives in December, each tenant carries his crop to the mill for grinding.
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British Dictionary definitions for harvest

harvest

/ (ˈhɑːvɪst) /

noun

the gathering of a ripened crop

the crop itself or the yield from it in a single growing season

the season for gathering crops

the product of an effort, action, etca harvest of love

verb

to gather or reap (a ripened crop) from (the place where it has been growing)

(tr) to receive or reap (benefits, consequences, etc)

(tr) mainly US to remove (an organ) from the body for transplantation

Derived forms of harvest

harvesting, nounharvestless, adjective

Word Origin for harvest

Old English hærfest; related to Old Norse harfr harrow, Old High German herbist autumn, Latin carpere to pluck, Greek karpos fruit, Sanskrit krpāna shears

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