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Definition harvest

Etymology

From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Cognate with Sylt H?refst, West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, Low German Harvst, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høst, Norwegian Nynorsk haust; further with Latin carpere 'to seize', Greek ?????? (karpós, “fruit”), ????? (keír?, “to cut off”).

Noun

harvest (plural harvests)

1. (Britain dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
2. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
3. The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
4. The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
5. (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
6. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

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. (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest
3. (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

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