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harvest
/ˈhɑɹ.vəst/
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What does harvest mean?
noun
- The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
- The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
More meanings (8)
noun
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
verb
- To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
- 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.
- To take (an organ) from an organ donor.
- To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
- To win, achieve a gain.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhɑɹ.vəst/
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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.
The croppers are entirely without capital, even in the limited sense of food or money to keep them from seed-time to harvest.
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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.
For a brief period, after the Rheims meeting, there was a golden harvest to be reaped by the best of the pilots.
Nothing, think you, but the fruit harvest and the vintage is in the fiery, flushing luster of Antares and the ominous Scorpion?