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harvest

harvest

166 1.0
The time when farmers gather ripe crops from the fields
  • noun
  • /ˈhɑrvɪst/
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  • After finishing the harvest, the farmers celebrated their success with a big feast.
  • harvest season
  • grain harvest
  • commercial harvest

In the simplest world, there's one harvest of of of wheat every year, OK.

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Examples

Synonyms

crop
vsharvest
460 1.1

Plants grown to be harvested for food or other use

means the plants themselves or their produce rather than the gathering process
yield
vsharvest
257 4.1

The amount people get from crops or investments

focuses on the numeric result rather than the whole process or season
harvesting
vsharvest
12 2.7

Gathering ripe crops from fields

includes the period, process, or result beyond just the action
harvest time
vsharvest
8 1.0

The time of year when farmers gather crops from fields

is broader, covering process and result as well as that season

Antonyms

34 1.0

Putting seeds or young plants in the ground so they can grow

Idioms

To get the results of work, for example gather crops at harvest

Compounds

8 1.0

The time of year when farmers gather crops from fields

6 4.7

A full moon that comes soon after the start of autumn and gives extra light for farmers

A community celebration that marks the end of the harvest with food and music

2 1.6

A time when crops grow well and give a lot of food

harvest home
  • Archaic
1 7.2

A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops

A small mouse that lives in fields and climbs tall grasses

Crops that are gathered in summer, such as fruits and vegetables

A small gray mouse in North and Central America that lives in grain fields and tall grass

harvest fly
  • Archaic
8.1

A loud insect that sings in summer, often in July and August

8.1

A very small baby bug that bites people and makes red itchy bumps on the skin

9.9

An upright plant that lives for many years and grows in dry grassy places

How Big

bumper crop
4 3.4
good harvest
2 1.6
harvest
166 1.0
crop failure
3 3.6

Surface Forms

harvest singular
harvests plural

Etymology

Harvest comes from an old English word hærfest that meant 'autumn' and 'the time to gather crops', giving the strong image of people bringing in food from the fields. So a harvest is the season, process, or result of gathering crops from the land.