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

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.

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He was taken from a kibbutz in southern Israel, where 10 Nepali nationals were killed.

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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.

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It took two days for the Israeli army to regain control of the kibbutz following the October 7 attack, and the violence killed 19 soldiers.

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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".

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Related Words

• commune