harvest

/ˈhɑrvəst/

/ˈhɑvɪst/

Other forms: harvests; harvesting; harvested

The harvest is the time when you reap what you sow. As a verb, to harvest something means that you pick or gather it. You might harvest your sweet corn late in the summer.

As a noun, harvest means the time of year when crops are ripe and ready to be gathered. The picked crop is also called a harvest: a bumper crop is a plentiful harvest, and a poor harvest is when things didn’t grow as well as expected. As a verb, to harvest something is to gather, trap, or cull it. You can harvest a soybean crop, you can harvest beaver pelts, or you can harvest tissues or organs for transplants.

Definitions of harvest

1. noun

   the gathering of a ripened crop
   synonyms: harvest home, harvesting

   types:

   haying

   the harvesting of hay

   type of:

   gather, gathering

   the act of gathering something
2. noun

   the yield from plants in a single growing season
   synonyms: crop

   types:

   fruitage

   the yield of fruit

   type of:

   output, yield

   production of a certain amount
3. noun

   the season for gathering crops
   synonyms: harvest time

   type of:

   season, time of year

   one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
4. noun

   the consequence of an effort or activity
   “they gathered a harvest of examples”

   “a harvest of love”

   type of:

   consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot

   a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
5. verb

   gather, as of natural products
   “harvest the grapes”

   synonyms: glean, reap

   types:

   cut

   reap or harvest

   type of:

   collect, garner, gather, pull together

   assemble or get together
6. 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”

   type of:

   remove, take, take away, withdraw

   remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract