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harvest home

noun

  1. the bringing home of the harvest.
  2. the time of harvesting or of gathering in the harvest.
  3. an English festival celebrated at the close of the harvest.
  4. a song sung as the harvest is brought home.


harvest home

noun

  1. the bringing in of the harvest
  2. a harvest supper


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Word History and Origins

Origin of harvest home1

First recorded in 1565–75

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Example Sentences

I will simply give his account of the manner in which they celebrated what in England would be called a "Harvest Home."

Agricultural machinery has abolished the festival of the Harvest Home.

Everything had some reference to Hallowe'en or to Harvest Home, and the children were not too young to appreciate this.

It has its origin in the casual ribaldry of the uindemiatores: in the rudely improvized dramatic contests of the harvest-home.

It was such weather as we have at "harvest home," and it was truly a "harvest home" throughout the whole Vega.

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