Definition

1. Noun:

   • The season for gathering crops: The time of year when ripe crops are collected from the fields.
   • The gathering of a ripened crop: The act or process of collecting mature crops.
   • The yield from plants in a single growing season: The total amount of a crop that is collected.
   • The consequence of an effort or activity: The results or benefits gained from work or action.

2. Verb:

   • To gather a ripened crop: To collect a mature crop from a field or plant.
   • To remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation: To extract something, such as an organ, for medical use.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The autumn harvest provides food for the winter.
  • This year's wheat harvest was abundant.
  • His years of research finally yielded a rich harvest of data.
• Verb:
  • Farmers harvest corn in the fall.
  • The surgeons will harvest the donor's kidneys.

Advanced Usage

• "To reap the harvest": To receive the benefits or results of one's past actions.
  • After years of saving, they finally reaped the harvest of their frugality.
• "Harvest moon": The full moon that occurs nearest to the autumnal equinox, traditionally providing light for harvesting.
  • We walked in the bright light of the harvest moon.

Variants and Related Words

• Harvester (n): A person or machine that gathers crops.
  • The combine harvester moved through the field.
• Harvestable (adj): Ready or suitable to be harvested.
  • The grapes are finally harvestable.

Synonyms

• Reap (v): To cut and gather a crop; to obtain as a result of effort.
• Yield (n): The amount of product produced.
• Crop (n): A cultivated plant that is grown and harvested.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Harvest" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meaning is typically expressed directly.)

Related Idioms

• "You reap what you sow": Your actions, good or bad, will eventually have corresponding consequences. (This idiom is conceptually related to "harvest" but uses the synonym "reap".)
  • If you treat people poorly, don't be surprised by loneliness; you reap what you sow.

Noun

1. the season for gathering crops
2. the gathering of a ripened crop
3. the consequence of an effort or activity
   • they gathered a harvest of examples
   • a harvest of love
4. the yield from plants in a single growing season

Verb

1. remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
   • The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals
2. gather, as of natural products
   • harvest the grapes