harvest
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈhɑrvɪst/
:
cosecha
- After years of perseverance, she finally enjoyed the harvest of her labor in the form of a successful book.
- reap a harvest
- a great harvest
- a grim harvest
I work my land and it gave me abundance because it's the law of the harvest.
- I work my land and it gave me abundance because it's the law of the harvest.
Examples
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The community celebrated the harvest of their collaboration, which brought many innovative ideas to fruition.
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Each day was a perpetual harvest; there was so much to gather, to keep.
Fiction book (1995) -
And the combination of all those factors has led to just an incredible harvest this year for the first time ever in my life.
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What seed of good can I harvest out of the fact that we are no longer together?
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The harvest of young talent which attracted the attention of the world.
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Thus, this massive immigration is seen as the "harvest of empire."
Academic text (2001) -
So that was probably a harvest of epic proportions.
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From now on, our harvest won't depend on the weather.
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Today we reap some of the harvest of what we sowed at the end of a South African famine.
Academic text (1999) -
The project aimed to encourage students to reap the harvest of their hard work through scholarships and awards.
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6
4.7
A full moon that comes soon after the start of autumn and gives extra light for farmers
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3.3
A community celebration that marks the end of the harvest with food and music
- Archaic
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7.2
A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops
A small gray mouse in North and Central America that lives in grain fields and tall grass
How Valuable
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Etymology
Harvest originally meant the gathering of crops, and people began to use it for any 'result' you get after hard work, like the harvest of effort or friendship. So harvest can mean the things you gain or collect from your actions.