harvest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹ.vɪst/
ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/
ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)vəst/
ipa: /ˈhaːvəst/
Forms: form: harvests
form: harvist
form: hervest
form: harst
form: 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-.
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”).
Senses: examples: text: The constant rain made the harvest a nightmare this year.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
examples: text: This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.
text: Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
ref: 1911, Jack London, The Whale Tooth:
text: To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
examples: text: The surveillance mission yielded a healthy harvest of intel.
text: The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: the harvest of a quiet eye
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph:
glosses: The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
glosses: The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
examples: text: Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.
glosses: The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
Synonyms: sense: agricultural or horticultural yield
word: crop
sense: agricultural or horticultural yield
word: gather
sense: season of the year
word: autumn
sense: season of the year
word: fall
Derived terms: Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse
go-harvest
harvest break
harvest bug
harvest doll
harvest festival
harvestfish
harvest fish
harvest fly
harvest gold
harvest goose
harvest home
harvest homecoming
harvestless
harvest lord
harvest louse
harvestman
harvest mite
harvest moon
harvest mouse
harvest queen
harvest-ready
harvestry
harvest season
harvest spider
harvest supper
harvest time
home harvest
iron harvest
midharvest
misharvest
nonharvest
overharvest
postharvest
preharvest
reap the harvest
snow-in-harvest
superharvest
underharvest