harvest

1. 1.

   gather, as of natural products

   “harvest the grapes”

   Synonymsreapglean

   Broadergather

   Narrowercut
2. 2.

   remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation

   “Should one harvest organs from dead people for transplants?”

   Broaderremove

Other forms of harvest

plural

harvests·

past tense

harvested·

present participle

harvesting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about harvest

What does harvest mean?

harvest means "the yield from plants in a single growing season". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in harvest?

harvest has 2 syllables: har-vest. The stress falls on "har". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹvəst/.

What is another word for harvest?

Close synonyms include crop, harvesting, harvest home, harvest time, reap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is harvest a common word?

harvest is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.