Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

harvester

/hˈɑɹvəstɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.87 in modern English

Syllables
har-vester
IPA
/hˈɑɹvəstɚ/
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

Dated

noun

A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

noun

A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.

noun

A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.

noun

A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.

noun

Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.

noun

A finnock (a young sea trout).

Etymology

From harvest + -er.

Usage

Inflected Forms

harvesters (plural)

Derived Forms

microharvester

Phrases

combine harvester harvester ant harvester butterfly harvester-thresher manual laborer manual labourer

Frequently Paired Words

farmer farmhand farmworker gatherer gleaner laborer labourer manual laborer

Synonyms

reaper

Questions

How do you pronounce harvester?
The recorded pronunciation is /hˈɑɹvəstɚ/.
What does harvester mean?
A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
Where does harvester come from?
From harvest + -er.

How to pronounce harvester

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