harvest festival
5
3.3
- noun
- /ˈhɑrvɪst ˈfɛstəvəl/
:
festival de la cosecha
- Get festive: Look into any harvest festivals run by your local community.
- celebrate a harvest festival
- annual harvest festival
- time for the harvest festival
Examples
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People do eat these wafers, but during the San Isidro harvest festival, they are hung up all over town as pahiyas, suspended jewels.
Academic text (1993) -
Oh, we are so going to the harvest festival.
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- Do you want to go to the harvest festival dance with me?
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"Like that awful time when we had the harvest festival," her mother continued.
Fiction book (1995) -
"What's wrong with going to the harvest festival?" she would say.
Fiction book (2001) -
We see it as a seasonal observance, a harvest festival.
Blog text (23) -
The news comes as Santa Fe Cafe is in the midst of its annual Hatch green chili harvest festival.
Blog text (33) -
During the autumn months, the whole community gathers to enjoy food and festivities at the harvest festival.
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Families come together to celebrate the end of the farming season at the annual harvest festival.
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The local harvest festival features traditional music, dancing, and plenty of delicious homemade pies.
Synonyms
1
7.2
A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops
How Big
5
3.3
- Archaic
1
7.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently composed from 'harvest' (the seasonal collection of crops) and 'festival' (a celebratory gathering), so the phrase denotes a celebration tied to the harvest. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and culturally familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun harvest festival comes from a simple image: when farmers finished gathering the harvest, the whole village held a festival with food, music and shared baskets of grain. That's why the phrase means a community event to 'celebrate' and 'give thanks' for the season's crops.