harvest

English Online Dictionary. What means harvest‎? What does harvest mean?

English

Alternative forms

• (all obsolete or dialectal) harvist, hervest, harst, hairst

Etymology

From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, /ˈhɑɹ.vɪst/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/, /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vəst/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈhaːvəst/

Noun

harvest (countable and uncountable, plural harvests)

1. (agriculture) The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

2. The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
3. (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
4. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
5. (UK, dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

6. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

Synonyms

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

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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. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill for meat, slaughter.

3. (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.

4. (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

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Anagrams

• thraves