Noun

The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture

The heavy cultivation of the hillside led to soil erosion.

The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture

''These fields are in cultivation .

Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)

His steadfast cultivation of their relationship finally bore fruit.

Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition

She is a woman of great cultivation .

Noun

(en noun)

The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

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

The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop.

The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered crops or fruits.

This year's cotton harvest''' was great but the corn '''harvest was disastrous.

* 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth

*: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.

* Shakespeare

To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.

(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

* Fuller

The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.

* Wordsworth

the harvest of a quiet eye

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

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=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.}}