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kibbutz
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
kibbutz \kib*butz"\ (k[i^]b*b[oo^]ts; k[i^]b*b[=oo]ts), n.; pl. Kibbutzim . [Modern Hebrew kibbutz gathering.] an Israeli communal[2] form of agricultural settlement. Originally it was predominantly agricultural and practiced a very high level of sharing, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A community, usually an agricultural one, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively [also: kibbutzim (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A kibbutz ( / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural kibbutzim ) is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture . The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania . Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic ...
Usage examples of kibbutz.
Meanwhile Dunja went on telling me of kibbutz days, her cokey tales like an encyclopedia entry, devoid of highs or lows.
Oved, a Kibbutznik and a scholar at Yad Tabenkin, the research and documentation center of the United Kibbutz Movement, studies the history of communes around the world.
The kibbutzim were facing insolvency, and although the government did arrange bailouts, the kibbutzniks knew that the nation no longer relied on them to settle the land and guard the borders.
In any case, as you must have been informed, he left the kibbutz in the company of Zif, and the pair of them have been collaborating on the monument.
To my astonishment, I found the Caesarea Golf and Country Club over a fence, bordering the kibbutz.
In their skullcaps and French clothing, they looked like typical Parisian Jews embarking on their first kibbutz experience, and so it would have seemed when they boarded a bus designated for travel outside the city.
It was his job to boil out of the horde of abstracts the ultimately important facts: which kibbutzim were going under and which were not.
Felix got _demoted_, from police marshal to police general, because he saw to it, when he could, that in the kibbutzim the students were bathed, fed, their medical supplies looked after, cots provided.
The shelling from the Golan Heights of the kibbutzim in the Huleh Valley grew more intense than ever.
The big guns that had for years been pounding the northern kibbutzim were finally silenced.
The old Sabras and the kibbutzim had risen, and been crushed by the Levites and their ‘peacekeeping’ mercenaries.
In fact, almost all Herbie's affairs to date had been with nubile, occasionally musclebpund, Westchester County kibbutzim girls named Rachel or Ruth or Hanna, warm and fiery-eyed, black-haired people of his own race and faith, whose flesh in the hay had enveloped him in a plump fermented way like fresh bread dough.
Everett had heard of retaliatory raids by kibbutzim to break a few heads in the old quarter.
Irregulars lay siege to kibbutz Manara high in the hills on the Lebanese border.
In a recent attempt to uncover a manufacturing plant on a kibbutz the women poured scalding water on our soldiers .