harvest
Americannoun
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the gathering of crops.
Drought has delayed the harvest of corn, peanuts, potatoes, and other vegetables.
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the season when ripened crops are gathered.
All through springtime, summer, and harvest, she waited for him.
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a crop or yield of one growing season.
Our blackberries are on track to meet or exceed last year's harvest of 30 lbs.
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a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored.
The silos held an abundant harvest of wheat.
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the taking or removal of animals to be killed for food or other uses.
Some have called the harvest of nautilus shells for jewelry and ornaments a “horrendous slaughter.”
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the collection of any resource for future use.
Rules were established to limit the harvest of forest resources for fuel and building materials.
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the extraction of an organ or tissue from a body for the purpose of transplant or scientific research.
The new method could improve the harvest of stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
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the result or consequence of any act, process, or event.
The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.
- Synonyms:
- return, product, collection, accumulation
verb (used with object)
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to gather (a crop or the like); reap.
It’s time to harvest the corn.
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to gather the crop from.
The farmer hired a few day laborers to help harvest his fields.
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to gain, win, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, etc.).
The country hopes to harvest dividends from staging a problem-free Olympics next year.
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to catch, take, or remove (animals), especially for food.
Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.
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to collect (any resource) for future use.
to harvest solar energy;
spammers who harvest email addresses.
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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)
noun
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the gathering of a ripened crop
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the crop itself or the yield from it in a single growing season
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the season for gathering crops
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the product of an effort, action, etc
a harvest of love
verb
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to gather or reap (a ripened crop) from (the place where it has been growing)
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(tr) to receive or reap (benefits, consequences, etc)
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(tr) to remove (an organ) from the body for transplantation
Other Word Forms
- half-harvested adjective
- harvestability noun
- harvestable adjective
- harvesting noun
- harvestless adjective
- postharvest adjective
- preharvest noun
- reharvest verb
- unharvested adjective
Etymology
Origin of harvest
First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English hærfest; cognate with German Herbst “autumn”; akin to Greek karpós “fruit,” Latin carpere “to pluck” ( carpe diem, carpel )
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Tax-loss harvesting involves selling underperforming assets to reduce an investor’s overall tax bill on realized gains.
From Barron's
As she was already so poorly when treatment began, there was no time to harvest and freeze her eggs.
From BBC
Look for some tax-loss harvesting into the end of the year as some of these trades unwind.
From Barron's
It comes after bird flu led to large numbers of turkeys being culled early, while a drier spring and summer hit sprout harvests.
From BBC
In Greenford, west London, Sir David gently cradles a tiny harvest mouse before releasing it into a meadow.
From BBC
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