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harvest

[ hahr-vist ]

noun

  1. the gathering of crops:

    Drought has delayed the harvest of corn, peanuts, potatoes, and other vegetables.

  2. the season when ripened crops are gathered:

    All through springtime, summer, and harvest, she waited for him.

  3. a crop or yield of one growing season:

    Our blackberries are on track to meet or exceed last year's harvest of 30 lbs.

  4. a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored:

    The silos held an abundant harvest of wheat.

  5. 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.”

  6. the collection of any resource for future use:

    Rules were established to limit the harvest of forest resources for fuel and building materials.

  7. 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.

  8. 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)

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

    It’s time to harvest the corn.

  2. to gather the crop from:

    The farmer hired a few day laborers to help harvest his fields.

  3. 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.

  4. to catch, take, or remove (animals), especially for food:

    Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.

  5. to collect (any resource) for future use:

    to harvest solar energy;

    spammers who harvest email addresses.

  6. 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)

  1. to gather a crop; reap:

    We saw whole families out in the fields, harvesting.

harvest

/ ˈhɑːvɪst /

noun

  1. the gathering of a ripened crop
  2. the crop itself or the yield from it in a single growing season
  3. the season for gathering crops
  4. the product of an effort, action, etc

    a harvest of love

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to gather or reap (a ripened crop) from (the place where it has been growing)
  2. tr to receive or reap (benefits, consequences, etc)
  3. tr to remove (an organ) from the body for transplantation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈharvesting, noun
  • ˈharvestless, adjective
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Other Words From

  • har·vest·a·ble adjective
  • har·vest·a·bil·i·ty [hahr-vis-t, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
  • har·vest·less adjective
  • half-har·vest·ed adjective
  • post·har·vest adjective
  • pre·har·vest noun
  • re·har·vest verb
  • un·har·vest·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of harvest1

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 )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of harvest1

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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Example Sentences

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.

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.

From Fortune

When compared to data collected after the harvest, her predictions proved fairly accurate.

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.

The project she came up with helps people in low-income nations predict their crop harvests.

After 50 years, members of the Huna Tlingit people can finally collect harvest sea gull eggs again in Glacier National Park.

These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans.

Their “livelihoods and harvest,” as Brown describes it, were stripped away from them.

Everything in life, from governance to harvest to warfare, was suffused with sacred meaning until the advent of the Enlightenment.

Roberts estimated that close to 95 percent of all wineries have returned to harvest production.

But the withering mildew was now breathed forth, that was intended to blast this goodly harvest.

They are religious who reap a great harvest among souls in this newly-christianized land.

I may be tempted to postpone my retirement, and for a while longer to continue to gather the golden harvest that ripens round me.

A rich harvest was offered in New France, where the natives lived almost like animals, without any knowledge of God.

When the harvest time arrives in December, each tenant carries his crop to the mill for grinding.

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