harvest – English noun declension

English noun forms of harvest

Noun: harvest
Singularharvest
Pluralharvests

Sample Sentences

  • The constant rain made the harvest a nightmare this year.
  • This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.
  • Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli. [1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:]
  • The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue. [1911, Jack London, The Whale Tooth:]
  • To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps. [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:]
  • The surveillance mission yielded a healthy harvest of intel.
  • The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
  • the harvest of a quiet eye [1815, William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph:]
  • Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.
  • Libra, or the Balance holdeth in the Navel, the Reins, and the lower parts of the Womb. The Scorpion keepeth the Bladder, Buttocks, and other privatives [sic] of Man or Woman. The Sagitary dwelleth in the Thighs and Buttocks; and theſe three are the ſigns of Harveſt. [1668, ‘Godfridus’, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, London: G.P. for G. Sawbridge, page 20:]

Etymology

1. 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-.
2. Cognates
3. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'harvest', Old English Nouns 'hærfest', Dutch Nouns 'herfst', German Nouns 'Herbst', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'høst', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'haust', Latin Nouns 'carpere', Ancient Greek Nouns 'καρπός'.

Verbs referencing "harvest"

Dutch Nouns herfst, German Nouns Herbst, Icelandic Nouns haust, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns haust, Danish Nouns høst, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns høst, Dutch Nouns oogst.