Synonyms for harvest
- noun
- verb
Definitions
- n. 1
The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.
- n. 2
The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.
- v. 1
To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
We harvested the apples in September already.
Related words
Choose the right word
Harvest is the elegant and literary word; crop is the common and commercial expression; we say a man sells his crop, but we should not speak of his selling his harvest; we speak of an ample or abundant harvest, a good crop.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- produce Your pessimism won't produce any positive results.
- gather You must gather your party before venturing forth.
- yield I'd rather die than yield to this sort of demand.
- crop Algeria needs more crop-yielding productive lands.
- reaping The family were all out reaping the corn.
By length
- 4 letters
- fall1, crop1, reap1
- 5 letters
- issue2, fruit1, yield1, glean1, swive
- 6 letters
- result2, return2, effect2, autumn2, gather2
- 7 letters
- product2, produce2, outcome2, reaping2
- 8 letters
- proceeds2
- 11 letters
- development4, consequence3, ingathering
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (issue2 = 2 syllables).