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harvest definition

har·vest (härvist)

noun

  1. the time of the year when matured grain, fruit, vegetables, etc. are reaped and gathered in
  2. a season's yield of grain, fruit, etc. when gathered in or ready to be gathered in; crop
  3. the gathering in of a crop
  4. the outcome or consequence of any effort or series of events the tyrant's harvest of hate

Etymology: ME hervest < OE hærfest, akin to Ger herbst (OHG herbist) < IE *(s)kerp- < base *(s)ker-, to cut > shear, short, L caro, flesh, cernere & Gr krinein, to separate, karpos, fruit: basic sense “time of cutting”

transitive verb, intransitive verb

  1. to gather in (a crop, etc.)
  2. to gather the crop from (a field)
  3. to catch, shoot, trap, etc. (fish or game), usually in an intensive, systematic way, as for commercial purposes
  4. to get (something) as the result of an action or effort
  5. to remove (body parts) for transplantation

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harvest Synonyms

harvest

n.

  1. Crop

    reaping, yield, yielding, fruitage; see crop, fruit 1, grain 1, produce, vegetable.

  2. Product

    intake, results, return, yield; see product 2, result.

  3. A season

    harvest time, summer, fall; see autumn, month, season.


harvest

v.

gather in, accumulate, pile up, collect, garner, crop, cut, pluck, pick, cull, take in, draw in, glean, amass, gather the harvest, hoard, mow, take the yield, take the crop, take the second crop, strip the fields, put in barns, gather the first fruits; see also reap 1, store 2.

Antonyms sow*, plant*, seed.


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harvest Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • reap: Peru's coffee farmers should be smiling, having reaped record harvests last year.

Subject

  • centrifugation: After 4 hours the cells were harvested by centrifugation.

Adjective modifier

  • bountiful: You are beginning to anticipate having a bountiful harvest of cucumbers for salads and maybe even pickles.

Modifies a noun

  • supper: Some congregations follow the service with a harvest supper.

Noun used with modifier

  • bumper: News of the bumper harvests have spread quickly from Morang where about 100 farmers are now using the new method.

Preposition: of

  • righteousness: Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.

Preposition: by

  • centrifugation: After 4 hours the cells were harvested by centrifugation.
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harvest quotes

Iwill not againcursetheground anymore for man'ssake; for the imagination of man is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

-Bible (Old Testament)

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the L thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

-Bible (Old Testament)

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

-Bible (Old Testament)

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