the consequence of an effort or activity
"they gathered a harvest of examples"
"a harvest of love"
the gathering of a ripened crop
"The farmers began their harvest by cutting the golden wheat in late September."
the season for gathering crops
"The farmers worked long hours during harvest to gather all the ripe corn before the first frost."
The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
"The farmers celebrated the arrival of harvest as the crisp air signaled that autumn had finally begun."
In plain English: A harvest is the total amount of crops that are gathered from fields after they have been grown and ripened.
"The farmers stored their corn harvest in the silo for winter."
Usage: Use this word to refer specifically to the act of gathering crops or, metaphorically, collecting something valuable like data during an event. Avoid using it as a synonym for "autumn" unless you are describing the season strictly by its agricultural association in traditional contexts.
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?"
To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
"The farmers worked late into the night to harvest the ripe wheat before the storm arrived."
In plain English: To harvest means to gather crops from fields after they have grown enough to be collected.
"We will harvest all the corn before winter arrives."
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-.