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Added 8 October 2026

harvest

/ˈhɑɹ.vəst/ noun

In Latin: messis Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about harvest at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The yield from plants in a single growing season.
The consequence of an effort or activity.
they gathered a harvest of examples
The gathering of a ripened crop.

verb

Gather, as of natural products.
harvest the grapes
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?

Origin

From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Cognates Cognate with Sylt North Frisian Hārefst, West Frisian hjerst, Dutch herfst, German Herbst, dated German Low German Harvst, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høst, Norwegian Nynorsk haust; further with Latin carpere (“to seize”), Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”).

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