kibbutz

American  

[ki-boots, -boots] / kɪˈbʊts, -ˈbuts /

noun

plural

kibbutzim

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

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kibbutz British  

/ kɪˈbʊts /

noun

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

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kibbutz Cultural  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of kibbutz

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

Example Sentences

That program led to the establishment of many kibbutzim, or agricultural communities, in Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal

There, she worked on a farm, lived on a kibbutz and, with thousands of other idealistic European Jews who had moved to Eretz Israel, pursued the dream of creating a Jewish state.

From The Wall Street Journal

He took a year out to apply to study law, during which he worked as a dustman, on a kibbutz and as a ballpoint pen salesman in South Africa.

From BBC

Reconstruction work has begun, though much of the kibbutz is still damaged and only a handful of residents have come back to live in Kfar Aza.

From Barron's

According to the Hostages Families Forum, he "fled to a shelter in the kibbutz with other foreign students, deflected a live grenade with his bare hands, and through his bravery saved many lives".

From BBC

Related Words

• commune