Harvest Definition
härvĭst
harvested, harvesting, harvests
noun
harvests
The time of the year when matured grain, fruit, vegetables, etc. are reaped and gathered in.
Webster's New World
The gathering in of a crop.
Webster's New World
A season's yield of grain, fruit, etc. when gathered in or ready to be gathered in; crop.
Webster's New World
The time or season of such gathering.
American Heritage
The outcome or consequence of any effort or series of events.
Webster's New World
verb
harvested, harvesting, harvests
To gather the crop from (a field)
Webster's New World
To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.
American Heritage
To catch, shoot, trap, etc. (fish or game), usually in an intensive, systematic way, as for commercial purposes.
Webster's New World
To gather in (a crop, etc.)
Webster's New World
To gather a crop from (land, for example).
American Heritage
Origin of Harvest
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From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“autumn, fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-, *skerp-; cognate with West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, Middle Low German hervest (“autumn”) (Dutch Low Saxon haarfst (“autumn”)), Danish høst, also Latin carpere 'to seize', Greek καρπός (karpos, “fruit”) and κείρω (keirō, “to cut off”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English hærfest kerp- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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