HARVESTS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

harvests 1 of 2

noun

plural of harvest

as in crops

the quantity of an animal or vegetable product gathered at the end of a season we can thank the bountiful harvest of 1621 for our traditional feast of turkey and all the trimmings every November

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harvests

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verb

present tense third-person singular of harvest

as in picks

to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use harvest salmon from nearby rivers every year we harvest corn from our own garden

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Recent Examples of harvests

Noun

Spring coincides with the peak of the Central Valley growing season, when farmers markets fill with strawberries, asparagus, and other early harvests that quickly show up on restaurant menus. —

Keyla Vasconcellos, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2026 Steep declines in timber harvests, meant to save Oregon’s last ancient forests, ripped open an urban-rural divide that still festers. —

Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026 Corn prices remain much lower than 2022’s peak of roughly $348 per ton because of big harvests and lower demand. —

Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026 These new tools increased harvests and dramatically reduced the risk of famine. —

The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026 Its pears aren't edible, either, so there's no upside in terms of harvests. —

Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 14 Mar. 2026 Nitrogen-intensive crops such as maize, a key staple across the region, are especially sensitive to fertilizer shortages, raising the risk of lower harvests and rising food prices, other experts highlighted. —

Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026 However, fruit trees that are growing slowly or that produce unimpressive harvests may need fertilizer from time to time to boost their growth and enhance fruiting and flowering. —

Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026 Instead, choose companion plants like marigolds and zinnias that will help your garden thrive rather than decrease your harvests. —

Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026

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Many of its residents now draw a salary as cooks and gardeners at the lodge, while a new water irrigation system allows three rice harvests a year instead of one. —

Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Mar. 2026 The Chesapeake Bay region is one of the nation's most important oyster-producing areas, with more than 12 billion oysters in Maryland waters alone and harvests generating millions in revenue, according to state and federal data. —

Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026 The first layer, called the Level-1 Trigger, or L1T, harvests 100,000 events per second, and the second layer, called the High-Level Trigger, or HLT, plucks 1,000 of those events to save for later analysis. —

IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026 Passive atmospheric water generator MIT engineers invented a revolutionary passive device that harvests clean drinking water from desert air without electricity. —

Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026 In addition, Wynn harvests its own herd of American Wagyu from Grazing Star Farms and breaks down primals in its in-house butcher shop. —

David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2025 Fourth-generation farmer Charles Stoecker harvests kale on land his family rents from Leslie Alfred White. —

Bracey Harris, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025 Volunteers are needed to help Senior Gleaners of San Diego County, a volunteer group that harvests surplus fruit and vegetables from gardens and fields to donate to local nonprofits helping people in need. —

Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025 Funga harvests fungal spores from a healthy forest and transplants them to a commercial tree nursery, mixes them with water, and applies them directly to saplings in an aqueous solution within a single day or two of harvest. —

Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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The crops good enough to incorporate into its Churchills, primeros, and other formats are aged for as long as a presidential term before the rolling process even begins.

— Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2026
Iran’s threats and attacks on vessels in the Gulf have raised the risk of transit enough to stop almost all traffic through the narrow waterway, which is the main conduit for about 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas, plus fertilizers that help grow crops the world relies on.

— Annette Choi, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026