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ernten — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • garner verb To gather or collect something, especially over time and through effort, such as support, praise, or information.
  • harvest noun The gathering in of a ripe crop, or the crop itself once gathered.
  • reap verb To cut and gather a crop, especially grain.

Senses

ernten is used for these senses in English:

  • garner (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
  • harvest (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
  • harvest (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
  • harvest (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
  • reap (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
  • reap (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.

garner — full definition

  1. verb To gather or collect something, especially over time and through effort, such as support, praise, or information.
  2. noun A storehouse for grain, or a store of something.

harvest — full definition

  1. noun The gathering in of a ripe crop, or the crop itself once gathered.
  2. noun The season when crops are gathered, roughly early autumn.
  3. noun The reward or result that comes from an effort or action.
  4. verb To gather a ripe crop, or to collect something else useful (data, organs, resources) in a similar organized way.

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