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Autumn and Harvest Definitions

Autumn

The season of the year between summer and winter, during which the weather becomes cooler and many plants become dormant, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and popularly considered to include the months of September, October, and November; fall. In the Southern Hemisphere autumn includes March, April, and May.

Harvest

The act or process of gathering a crop.

Autumn

A period of maturity verging on decline.

Harvest

The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.

Autumn

Relating to or occurring in autumn
Autumn foliage.
Autumn harvests.

Harvest

The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.
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Autumn

Grown during the season of autumn
Autumn crops.

Harvest

The time or season of such gathering
Harvest lasts about six weeks.

Autumn

Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.

Harvest

The result or consequence of an action
Our trip to the Grand Canyon yielded a rich harvest of memories.

Autumn

The time period when someone or something is past its prime.

Harvest

To gather (a crop)
Harvested wheat.
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Autumn

(fashion) A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.

Harvest

To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.

Autumn

Of or relating to autumn; autumnal
Autumn leaves

Harvest

To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation
Harvested bone marrow.

Autumn

(intransitive) To spend the autumn (in a particular place).

Harvest

To gather a crop from (land, for example)
Harvest an apple orchard.
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Autumn

To undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.

Harvest

To receive or collect (energy)
A turbine that harvests energy from tidal currents.

Autumn

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

Harvest

To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action)
Harvest the rewards of hard work.

Autumn

The harvest or fruits of autumn.

Harvest

To gather a crop.

Autumn

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor.
Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.

Harvest

The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.

Autumn

The season when the leaves fall from the trees;
In the fall of 1973

Harvest

The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.

Harvest

The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

Harvest

The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.

Harvest

(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

Harvest

(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

Harvest

(transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

Harvest

To kill for meat, slaughter.

Harvest

(intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest
Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation

Harvest

(transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21

Harvest

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.
Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease.
At harvest, when corn is ripe.

Harvest

That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
To glean the broken ears after the manThat the main harvest reaps.

Harvest

The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
The harvest of a quiet eye.

Harvest

To reap or gather, as any crop.

Harvest

The yield from plants in a single growing season

Harvest

The consequence of an effort or activity;
They gathered a harvest of examples
A harvest of love

Harvest

The gathering of a ripened crop

Harvest

The season for gathering crops

Harvest

Gather, as of natural products;
Harvest the grapes

Harvest

Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation;
The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals

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