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harvest

/ˈhɑɹ.vəst/

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What does harvest mean?

noun

  1. The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
  2. The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
  3. The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
More meanings (8)

noun

  1. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
  2. The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
  3. A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

verb

  1. To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
  2. To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population.
  3. To take (an organ) from an organ donor.
  4. To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
  5. To win, achieve a gain.

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IPA pronunciation

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈhɑɹ.vɪst/
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The wild rice harvesters came in groups of fifteen to twenty families to a lake, depending upon the size of the harvest.
Charles A. EastmanIndian BoyhoodProject Gutenberg ebook #337
The croppers are entirely without capital, even in the limited sense of food or money to keep them from seed-time to harvest.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
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The sermon was a very seasonable one, being about the harvest, and in it things temporal and spiritual were very happily blended.
George BorrowWild Wales: Its People, Language and SceneryProject Gutenberg ebook #648
For a brief period, after the Rheims meeting, there was a golden harvest to be reaped by the best of the pilots.
Evelyn Charles Vivian; W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) MarshA History of AeronauticsProject Gutenberg ebook #874
Nothing, think you, but the fruit harvest and the vintage is in the fiery, flushing luster of Antares and the ominous Scorpion?
Thomas H. Burgoyne; Belle M. WagnerThe Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #1650