harvest

Plural: harvests

Noun

• the yield from plants in a single growing season
• the consequence of an effort or activity
  • "they gathered a harvest of examples"
  • "a harvest of love"
• the gathering of a ripened crop
• the season for gathering crops
• 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.
• 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

Verb Forms: harvested, harvesting, harvests

• To gather a crop; to obtain or collect a resource.
• gather, as of natural products
  • "harvest the grapes"
• 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"
• 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 be occupied bringing in a harvest.
• To win, achieve a gain.

Examples

• An efficient rifle or shotgun can harvest a deer for venison.
• Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.
• She managed to HARVEST a triple word score by extending a short word across the board.
• The constant rain made the harvest a nightmare this year.
• The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21.
• The surveillance mission yielded a healthy harvest of intel.
• This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.
• We harvested the apples in September already.
• We're going to harvest day and night, because the weather is about to turn sour.

Synonyms

crop, glean, harvest home, harvest time, harvesting, reap, autumn, fall, gather

Anagrams of harvest