harvest
the gathering of crops: Drought has delayed the harvest of corn, peanuts, potatoes, and other vegetables.
the season when ripened crops are gathered: All through springtime, summer, and harvest, she waited for him.
a crop or yield of one growing season: Our blackberries are on track to meet or exceed last year's harvest of 30 lbs.: See Synonym Study at crop.
a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: The silos held an abundant harvest of wheat.
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.”
the collection of any resource for future use: Rules were established to limit the harvest of forest resources for fuel and building materials.
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.
the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.
to gather (a crop or the like); reap: It’s time to harvest the corn.
to gather the crop from: The farmer hired a few day laborers to help harvest his fields.
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.
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.
to gather a crop; reap: We saw whole families out in the fields, harvesting.
Origin of harvest
1Other words for harvest
Other words from harvest
- har·vest·a·ble, adjective
- har·vest·a·bil·i·ty [hahr-vis-tuh-bil-i-tee] /ˌhɑr vɪs təˈbɪl ɪ ti/ 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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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.
A 15-Week Exercise Plan for Kids and Families | Krista Langlois | September 12, 2020 | Outside OnlineThe majority of the sales are related to barter trading with farmers getting fertilizers and chemicals before planting in exchange for part of the harvest.
Farmers are selling soybeans two years in advance in rare trade | Rachel Schallom | August 25, 2020 | FortuneWhen compared to data collected after the harvest, her predictions proved fairly accurate.
For teens, big problems may lead to meaningful research | Carolyn Wilke | July 28, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThey 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.
For teens, big problems may lead to meaningful research | Carolyn Wilke | July 28, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThe project she came up with helps people in low-income nations predict their crop harvests.
For teens, big problems may lead to meaningful research | Carolyn Wilke | July 28, 2020 | Science News For Students
After 50 years, members of the Huna Tlingit people can finally collect harvest sea gull eggs again in Glacier National Park.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive | Ben Jacobs | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese 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.
Karen Armstrong’s New Rule: Religion Isn’t Responsible for Violence | Patricia Pearson | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRoberts 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.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterThey 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.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuA 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.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin | Mary Hazelton Wade
British Dictionary definitions for harvest
/ (ˈhɑːvɪst) /
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, etc: a harvest of love
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
Origin of harvest
1Derived forms of harvest
- harvesting, noun
- harvestless, adjective
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