harvest

English

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Etymology

From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“autumn, fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-, *skerp-; cognate with West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, Middle Saxon/Low German hervest (“autumn”) (Saxon/Low German harvst (“autumn”)), Danish høst, also Latin carpere 'to seize', Greek καρπός (karpos, “fruit”) and κείρω (keirō, “to cut off”).

Pronunciation

Noun

harvest (plural harvests)

  1. (UK dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
  2. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
  3. The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop.
  4. The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered, cut ... fruits of horti- or agri-culture (usually a food - or industrial crop)
    This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest disastrous
  5. (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
  6. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
      Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.

Synonyms

  • (season of the year): autumn, fall
  • (horti- or agricultural yield): crop

Translations

process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop
yield of harvesting
product or result of any exertion
pagan ceremony around the autumn equinox
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Verb

harvest (third-person singular simple present harvests, present participle harvesting, simple past and past participle harvested)

  1. (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
  2. (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest
    Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
  3. (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
    The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21

Translations

to bring in a harvest; reap
to be occupied bringing in a harvest
to win, achieve a gain

Derived terms

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