harvest time
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- noun
- /ˈhɑrvɪst taɪm/
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tiempo de cosecha
- Farmers work long hours at harvest time to gather their crops before the first frost.
Use straw or chopped up leaves to protect your garlic and this will also help you get much larger bulbs at harvest time.
- Use straw or chopped up leaves to protect your garlic and this will also help you get much larger bulbs at harvest time.
- He says new friendships are not to be scorned if they offer the hope of bearing fruit, like green shoots of corn that do not disappoint us at harvest time.
- Here we are at the Austin's Ale House to be settled at harvest time on the threshing floor.
Examples
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Of late, wet harvest times have been more numerous than in centuries past.
Fiction book (1990) -
Halloween has always been celebrated around harvest time, when apples are picked.
Blog text (34) -
I know, but I could have everything paid off by harvest time.
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Previously, harvest time was also a period of risk.
Academic text (2011) -
We all work hard, and at harvest time, we all share equally.
Blog text (16) -
The end of the summer is harvest time, the peak of local food supplies.
Blog text (12) -
At harvest time, there'd be as many at my table as right here!
Fiction book (1997) -
A normal work week is fifty hours; at harvest time, it's eighty.
Fiction book (1999) -
If you think about farmers, they only sell at harvest time and they're using inputs along the way.
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One year, when Lexine was still newly married, she was far along in her first pregnancy at harvest time.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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The time when farmers gather ripe crops from the fields
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Gathering ripe crops from fields
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the time of year when crops are gathered' is directly composed from 'harvest' (the crop-gathering season) and 'time' (a period), following a simple noun+noun compositional pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun harvest time comes from busy days on farms when people cut and carry the ripe crops, the harvest, at the right time. So, harvest time means 'the time of year when crops are gathered from the fields'.