Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A collective farm or settlement in modern Israel.
Wiktionary
- n. A community, usually a village, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an Israeli communal{2} form of agricultural settlement. Originally it was predominantly agricultural and practiced a very high level of sharing, including collective rearing of children. More recently (by 1998) industries have taken over a significant role in the Kibbutz economy, and the level of sharing has dropped significantly.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively
Etymologies
- From Hebrew קיבוץ (kibúts), derived from the radix קבץ (kavatz). (Wiktionary)
- Hebrew qibbûṣ, gathering, from qibbēṣ, derived stem of qābaṣ, to gather; see qbṢ́ in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A root with a similar meaning, kibits, survives in modern Hebrew in the word kibbutz and the verb, to gather.”
Hebrew is the last common ancestor of all languages - The Panda's Thumb
“LAMB: Define three things: the word kibbutz, kibbutzim and kibbutznik.”
Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel
“As I explained in my last post, the kibbutz is a thoroughly socialist place.”
The Huffington Post: David Dagan: Kibbutz Diary: Business savvy? These socialists have plenty
“The needs of the kibbutz were the deciding factor, and because of the shortage of young women there was always a compelling reason to direct them to the service professions, even if they had been trained in agricultural work.”
“When Israel became independent, the Labor-Zionist movement was the dominant political movement, and the kibbutz was the vanguard of the Labor-Zionist movement.”
“You have a decent point, but remember that the second and third generation people who grew up in the kibbutz are the ones who want to get out.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Kibbutzim and the Failure of Socialism:
“And this is a guy named Max Nathans (ph), who lives on an kibbutz, which is an Israeli communal settlement.”
“FRANKEL: A kibbutz is a communal, originally agricultural, collective.”
Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel
“Sweet Mud (2006 ISR): Life on the kibbutz is the subject of this incisive, episodic”
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