kibbutz
- (in Israel) a community settlement, usually agricultural, organized under collectivist principles.
Origin of kibbutz
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Contemporary Examples of kibbutz
Marzipan Flowers tells the story of Hadas Regal, a 48-year-old woman living on a kibbutz in southern Israel.
On Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces thwarted an attack of 13 Palestinian gunmen who emerged near Kibbutz Sufa near the border.
British soldiers occasionally came to the kibbutz, but enough advance warning kept suspicions low.
Yarden was on her way home from school when a Qassam hit their kibbutz, landing less than 100 feet away.
The kibbutz elite was replaced by several new elites, but the settlers were the first to claim the mantle as heirs.
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October 8, 2013
kibbutz
- a collective agricultural settlement in modern Israel, owned and administered communally by its members and on which children are reared collectively
Word Origin for kibbutz
Word Origin and History for kibbutz
"Israeli collective settlement," 1931, from Modern Hebrew qibbus "gathering," earlier "a gathering together," verbal noun from root of qibbetz "he gathered together." Plural is kibbutzim. Related to Arabic quabada "he grasped, seized."
kibbutz
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.