harvest
verb
harvested; harvesting; harvests
1
a
: to gather in (a crop) : reap
harvesting corn
b
: to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (salmon, oysters, deer, etc.) for human use, sport, or population control
c
: to remove or extract (something, such as living cells, tissues, or organs) from culture (see culture entry 1 sense 5) or from a living or recently deceased body especially for transplanting
2
a
: to accumulate a store of
… has now harvested this new generation's scholarly labors …—
M. J. Wiener
M. J. Wiener
b
: to win by achievement
the team harvested several awards
: to gather in a crop especially for food
… sold it standing in the field to save himself the trouble of harvesting …—Pearl Buck
Pearl Buck
harvester
noun
Examples of harvest in a Sentence
It is time to harvest the wheat.
They want to harvest timber in these woods.
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As the largest lobster-producing state in the US, Maine harvests more than 100 million pounds of the shellfish annually.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
Musk wants to use his rockets to launch data centers into space, where there is abundant solar power to harvest.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
Last year, the singer found himself at the center of the high-fence hunting debate after harvesting a world-record Transcaspian urial ram at Texas' Covered S Ranch.
—Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
The centerpiece is the massive ice sculptures built specifically for the event — full-scale buildings, castles and figures carved from blocks of ice harvested from the Songhua River.
—Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026
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Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
Musk wants to use his rockets to launch data centers into space, where there is abundant solar power to harvest.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
Last year, the singer found himself at the center of the high-fence hunting debate after harvesting a world-record Transcaspian urial ram at Texas' Covered S Ranch.
—Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
The centerpiece is the massive ice sculptures built specifically for the event — full-scale buildings, castles and figures carved from blocks of ice harvested from the Songhua River.
—Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026
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“Harvest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harvest. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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harvest
1 of 2 noun
har·vest
ˈhär-vəst 
1
: the season when crops are gathered
2
: the gathering of a crop
3
: a ripe crop (as of grain or fruit)
also
: the quantity of a crop gathered in a single season
harvest
2 of 2 verb1
: to gather in a crop : reap
2
: to gather as if by harvesting
harvest timber
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