harvest

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The crops that are gathered in, or the amount gathered.

   This year's wheat harvest was the largest in a decade.

2. 2
   noun

   The time or activity of gathering ripe crops.

   The whole village helps with the harvest every autumn.

3. 3
   verb

   To gather a crop from the fields.

   We harvested the apples in September.

4. 4
   noun

   The result or reward of an effort or action.

   Years of hard work finally produced a rich harvest of success.

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”).

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