harvest

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the consequence of an effort or activity

   they gathered a harvest of examples

2. 2
   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

3. 3
   verb

   gather, as of natural products

   harvest the grapes

4. 4
   noun

   The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

   The constant rain made the harvest a nightmare this year.

5. 5
   noun

   The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.

   This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.

6. 6
   noun

   The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

   The surveillance mission yielded a healthy harvest of intel.

7. 7
   noun

   The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

   Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.

8. 8
   verb

   To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

   We harvested the apples in September already.

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-. Cognates Cognate with Sylt North Frisian Hārefst, West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, dated German Low German Harvst, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høst, Norwegian Nynorsk haust; further with Latin carpere (“to seize”), Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”).