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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A collective farm or settlement in modern Israel.

Wiktionary

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. n. a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively

Etymologies

  1. From Hebrew קיבוץ (kibúts), derived from the radix קבץ (kavatz). (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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