harvest Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the yield from plants in a single growing season
    crop.
  2. noun the consequence of an effort or activity
    • they gathered a harvest of examples
    • a harvest of love
  3. noun the gathering of a ripened crop
    harvest home; harvesting.
  4. noun the season for gathering crops
    harvest time.
  5. verb gather, as of natural products
    glean; reap.
    • harvest the grapes
  6. verb remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
    • The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals

WordNet

Har"vest noun
Etymology
OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. fruit. Cf. Carpet.
Definitions
  1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.
    Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. Gen viii. 22.
    At harvest, when corn is ripe. Tyndale.
  2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
    Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Joel iii. 13.
    To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.
  3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
    The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller.
    The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth.
Har"vest transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Harvested; present participle & verbal noun Harvesting
Definitions
  1. To reap or gather, as any crop.

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