kibbutz

[ki-boots, -boots]

noun

plural

kibbutzim 

1. (in Israel) a community settlement, usually agricultural, organized under collectivist principles.

kibbutz

/ kɪˈbʊts /

noun

1. a collective agricultural settlement in modern Israel, owned and administered communally by its members and on which children are reared collectively

kibbutz

1. plur. kibbutzim (ki-boot-seem) A communal farm or settlement in Israel. Kibbutzim have helped build national spirit in Israel, and the residents have transformed barren land into fertile, crop-producing land.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kibbutz¹

1930–35; < Modern Hebrew kibuṣ; compare Hebrew qibbūṣ gathering

Word History and Origins

Origin of kibbutz¹

C20: from Modern Hebrew qibbūs: gathering, from Hebrew qibbūtz

Example Sentences

Just like the kibbutz movement of collective farms in the 1920s and 1930s inside present-day Israel, settlements in the occupied territories after 1967 were strategically placed as a first line of defence.

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Ms Keidar was 71 when she was killed at a kibbutz and her body taken into Gaza.

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The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony was cut short when hostilities erupted and they were ordered to evacuate the kibbutz near Jerusalem.

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The couple were killed at the same kibbutz and their bodies were also held by the Mujahideen Brigades, according to the IDF.

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She lived in a kibbutz in Israel when she was younger.

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Related Words

• commune