Meaning

17 senses
  1. A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

    The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?

    Feldfrucht, Erntegut, Getreide

    посе́вposév, сельскохозя́йственная культу́раselʹskoxozjájstvennaja kulʹtúra

  2. The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

    It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!

    Ernte, Jahresernte

    урожа́йurožáj

    урожа́йurožáj, врожа́йvrožáj

    the output of something in a season

  3. (figuratively)A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.

    The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.

    The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.

    Jahrgang, Bündel

    a collection of people or things appearing together

  4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

    The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.

    Vielzahl, Vielzahl

  5. The lashing end of a whip.

    Geißel

    the stock or handle of a whip

  6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

    Gerte, Reitpeitsche

  7. A rocky outcrop.

    Blüte

    обнаже́ниеobnažénije, вы́ход на пове́рхностьvýxod na povérxnostʹ

  8. The act of cropping.

    Cropping

  9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

    Ausschnitt

  10. A short haircut.

    She went from a ponytail to a crop.

    Eton crop

    Kurzhaarschnitt

  11. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.

    Kropf, Kehlsack

    зобzob

    во́лоvólo

    a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

  12. The foliate part of a finial.

Examples

276 sentences
  1. This bad weather will affect the crops.

    Погана погода вплине на урожай.

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  2. We had a bumper crop this year.

    Ми мали цього року величезний врожай.

    ruУ нас в этом году был огромный урожай.

    deWir hatten in diesem Jahr eine Rekordernte.

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  3. Rich soil yields good crops.

    Родючий ґрунт дає багатий урожай.

    deReichhaltige Böden bringen gute Ernten.

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  4. The crops need rain.

    Зернові культури потребують дощу.

    ruПосевам нужен дождь.

    deDas Getreide braucht Regen.

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  5. The rice crop is already in.

    ruУрожай риса уже собран.

    deDie Reisernte ist schon eingebracht.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
natural production for a specific year:
part of bird's or other animal's alimentary tract:
Русский
By meaning 4
plant grown for any economic purpose:
natural production for a specific year:
rocky outcrop:
part of bird's or other animal's alimentary tract:
Deutsch
By meaning 12
plant grown for any economic purpose:
natural production for a specific year:
group, cluster or collection of things:
group of vesicles:
lashing end of a whip:
entire short whip; riding crop — see also riding crop:
rocky outcrop:
act of cropping:
reduced photograph or other image:
short haircut:
part of bird's or other animal's alimentary tract:
head of a flower; an ear of corn; top branches of a tree:

Origin

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a pl

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Doublet of group.

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Forms

plural: crops
Singularcrop
Pluralcrops

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the yield from plants in a single growing season:harvest
  • a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food:craw

Word family

56 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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