kolkhoz
pronunciation
How to pronounce kolkhoz in British English: UK [kəl'kɔ:z]
How to pronounce kolkhoz in American English: US [kəl'kɔz]
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- Noun:
- a collective farm owned by the communist state
Word Origin
- kolkhoz (n.)
- U.S.S.R. collective farm, 1921, from Russian kolkhoz, contraction of kollektivnoe khozyaistvo "collective farm."
Example
- 1. Not all citizens like this building calling it the " house of a kolkhoz man " .
- 2. Moscow , russia : fireworks light up the sky near the famous soviet sculpture ' worker and kolkhoz woman ' by vera mukhina