harvest
IPA: hˈɑrvʌst
noun
- (agriculture) The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
- (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- (UK, dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
verb
- (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill for meat, slaughter.
- (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
- (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
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Examples of "harvest" in Sentences
- He plowed the ground to harvest crops.
- It was the time to harvest the potatoes.
- It celebrates the bounty of the Fall Harvest.
- The color represents the fields and the harvests.
- The landowner and sharecropper split the harvest.
- Sustainability of the harvest is the only issue for me.
- They were thankful for the bountifulness of the harvest.
- The Season of Emergence is followed by the Season of the Harvest.
- Sure the harvest is the goal but not the total reason we go hunting.
- It is a festival of peace and thanksgiving to the Almighty for the harvests.
- The harvest of Minnesota is later sacrificed in favor of the new soybean crop.
- The term harvest comes from the Anglo-Saxon word haerfest, which means autumn.
- The bonding of souls during the harvest is a gift that can only be known by experience ...
- Grape prices have risen, the harvest is at hand, and there is still much infrastructure in need of repair.
- Wozniak says the eldest family member carries in a sheaf of wheat representing the rich harvest of Ukraine.
- The grain harvest is now over, very generally, and cattle are seen feeding among the stubble on many farms.