harvest
Meanings
noun
- The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
- The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
verb
- To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
- To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population.
- To take (an organ) from an organ donor.
- To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
- To win, achieve a gain.
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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”).
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