Definition of "kibbutz" []

• A collective farm or settlement in modern Israel. (noun)

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• "A root with a similar meaning, kibits, survives in modern Hebrew in the word kibbutz and the verb, to gather."
• "LAMB: Define three things: the word kibbutz, kibbutzim and kibbutznik."
• "As I explained in my last post, the kibbutz is a thoroughly socialist place."