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- [hahr-vist]
- /ˈhɑr vɪst/
- /ˈhɑː.vɪst/
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- [hahr-vist]
- /ˈhɑr vɪst/
Definitions of harvest word
- noun harvest Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops. 1
- noun harvest the season when ripened crops are gathered. 1
- noun harvest a crop or yield of one growing season. See Synonym Study at crop. 1
- noun harvest a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: a harvest of wheat. 1
- noun harvest the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories. 1
- verb with object harvest to gather (a crop or the like); reap. 1
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Origin of harvest
First appearance:
before 950 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 950; Middle English; Old English hærfest; cognate with German Herbst “autumn”; akin to harrow1
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Harvest
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
harvest popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
harvest usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for harvest
verb harvest
- amass — If you amass something such as money or information, you gradually get a lot of it.
- gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- mow — Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. to store (hay) in a barn.
- pluck — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- collect — If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
noun harvest
- yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- produce — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- ingathering — a gathering in, especially of farm products; harvest.
Antonyms for harvest
verb harvest
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
- misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
noun harvest
- beginning — The beginning of an event or process is the first part of it.
- cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- commencement — The commencement of something is its beginning.
- origin — something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
- rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
Top questions with harvest
- when to harvest garlic?
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