harvest

[hahr-vist] /ˈhɑr vɪst/

noun

Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.

the season when ripened crops are gathered.

a crop or yield of one growing season.

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, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).

to catch, take, or remove for use:

Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.

verb (used without object)

10.

to gather a crop; reap.

Origin

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

Related forms

harvestable, adjective

harvestability, noun

harvestless, adjective

half-harvested, adjective

postharvest, adjective

preharvest, noun

reharvest, verb

unharvested, adjective

Synonyms

3. See crop. 5. accumulation, collection, product, return, proceeds.

Examples from the web for harvest

Fall is the end of the harvest season, and farmers have already tilled this field, meaning it is ready for the next planting.
The harvest is yet to come.
All summer you water and tend your vegetables, and finally they're ready to harvest.
Broccoli and cauliflower buds stay tight, patiently awaiting harvest.
With honesty and hard work, we could harvest the reward for our inventions.
Ancient rulers visited the temple to pray for a good harvest.
New England fishermen came south to harvest oysters.
Where winters are cold, plant in early spring for summer harvest.
You can harvest these leafy greens until a hard freeze hits and the plants
Fall is here, and another harvest of college applications has begun.

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, etc: a harvest of love

verb

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

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

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

Derived Forms

harvesting, noun
harvestless, adjective

Word Origin

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

Word Origin and History for harvest

Old English hærfest "autumn, period between August and November," from Proto-Germanic *harbitas (cf. Old Saxon hervist, Old Frisian and Dutch herfst, German Herbst "autumn," Old Norse haust "harvest"), from PIE *kerp- "to gather, pluck, harvest" (cf. Sanskrit krpana- "sword," krpani "shears;" Greek karpos "fruit," karpizomai "make harvest of;" Latin carpere "to cut, divide, pluck;" Lithuanian kerpu "cut;" Middle Irish cerbaim "cut").

The borrowing of autumn and the use of fall in a seasonal sense gradually focused the meaning of harvest to "the time of gathering crops" (mid-13c.), then to the action itself and the product of the action (after c.1300). Figurative use by 1530s. Harvest home (1590s) is the occasion of bringing home the last of the harvest; harvest moon (1706) is that which is full within a fortnight of the autumnal equinox.

c.1400, from harvest (n.). Of wild animals, from 1947; of cells, from 1946. Related: Harvested; harvesting.

harvest in Technology

tool, networking
A highly scalable, customisable system for discovering resources on the Internet.
Version: 1.3.
(https://tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/).
(1999-01-16)

harvest in the Bible

the season for gathering grain or fruit. On the 16th day of Abib (or April) a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered as a first-fruit before the Lord, and immediately after this the harvest commenced (Lev. 23:9-14; 2 Sam. 21:9, 10; Ruth 2:23). It began with the feast of Passover and ended with Pentecost, thus lasting for seven weeks (Ex. 23:16). The harvest was a season of joy (Ps. 126:1-6; Isa. 9:3). This word is used figuratively Matt. 9:37; 13:30; Luke 10:2; John 4:35. (See AGRICULTURE.)