harvest

UK: /ˈhɑː^rvɪst/ US: /ˈhɑrvɪst/ ,(här′vist)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

har•vest /ˈhɑrvɪst/   n. 

[countable]
1. Agriculture Also, ˈhar•vest•ing. the gathering of crops:
   helped with the harvest.
2. Agriculture the season when ripened crops are gathered.
3. Agriculture a crop or yield of one growing season:
   a harvest of wheat.
4. the result of any act, process, or event:
   the harvest of twenty years of research.

v. [~ + object]

5. Agriculture to gather (a crop or the like);
   reap:
   It was time to harvest the grain.
6. Agriculture to gather the crop from:
   to harvest the fields.
7. to accumulate;
   gather:
   harvested the results of their research.
8. to take for use:
   harvesting salmon from the river.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

har•vest  (här′vist), n. 

1. Agriculture Also, har′vest•ing. the gathering of crops.
2. Agriculture the season when ripened crops are gathered.
3. Agriculture a crop or yield of one growing season.
4. a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored:
   a harvest of wheat.
5. the result or consequence of any act, process, or event:
   The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.

v.t. 

6. Agriculture to gather (a crop or the like);
   reap.
7. Agriculture to gather the crop from:
   to harvest the fields.
8. to gain, win, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).
9. to catch, take, or remove for use:
   Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.

v.i. 

10. to gather a crop;
    reap.

• bef. 950; Middle English; Old English hærfest; cognate with German Herbst autumn; akin to harrow¹

har′vest•a•ble, adj. 
har′vest•a•bil′i•ty, n. 
har′vest•less, adj. 
Synonyms

• 3. See crop. 
• 5. accumulation, collection, product, return, proceeds.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

harvest / ˈhɑːvɪst/ noun

1. the gathering of a ripened crop
2. the crop itself or the yield from it in a single growing season
3. the season for gathering crops
4. the product of an effort, action, etc: a harvest of love

verb

1. to gather or reap (a ripened crop) from (the place where it has been growing)
2. (transitive) to receive or reap (benefits, consequences, etc)
3. to gather (a resource) for future use: harvesting people's data without their consent

Etymology: Old English hærfest; related to Old Norse harfr harrow, Old High German herbist autumn, Latin carpere to pluck, Greek karpos fruit, Sanskrit krpāna shears

ˈharvesting noun