kibbutz
pronunciation
How to pronounce kibbutz in British English:
UK [kɪˈbʊts]
How to pronounce kibbutz in American English:
US [kɪ'bʊts]
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- Noun:
- a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively
Word Origin
- kibbutz (n.)
- "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."
Example
- 1. Don 't you understand that you 're destroying the kibbutz ?
- 2. The two young women organisers of the event had taken a creative prayer course at a conservative kibbutz in israel .
- 3. Because the young generation wants to kick us out of the kibbutz .
- 4. And that 's to bring in new young blood to the kibbutz .
- 5. And it 's obvious that there won 't be a kibbutz after us .