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kolkhoz

/kəlˈkɒz/

kolkhoz noun: a farming collective in the former Soviet Union.

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Noun

kolkhoz (plural kolkhozes or kolkhozy)

  1. (historical) A farming collective in the former Soviet Union.
    • And books were demanded of them, books on Russia, on sailors, on aeroplanes, on scientists, on metro-workers, on kolkhoz labourers, on women and schoolchildren and parachute heroes.2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 21
    Synonyms:
    kolhosp

kolkhoz meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Arabic

kolkhoz in Hindi

farming collective
कोलख़ोज़ kolxoz

kolkhoz in Marathi

farming collective
कोलखोझ kolkhojh

kolkhoz in Urdu

مشترکہ کھیت

kolkhoz in Arabic

farming collective
كُولْخُوز kūlḵūz
More languagesFewer languages
kolkhoz in Persian
کلخوز kolxôz
kolkhoz in Vietnamese
nông trường tập thể

Synonyms of kolkhoz

Forms of kolkhoz

pluralkolkhozes
pluralkolkhozy

Origin of kolkhoz

From Russian колхо́з (kolxóz), contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство (kollektívnoje xozjájstvo, “collective farm, household”).

Questions about kolkhoz

What does kolkhoz mean?
Kolkhoz means a farming collective in the former Soviet Union.
What is kolkhoz in Hindi?
Kolkhoz in Hindi is कोलख़ोज़ (kolxoz). See Kolkhoz meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is kolkhoz?
Kolkhoz is a noun.
How do you pronounce kolkhoz?
Kolkhoz is pronounced /kəlˈkɒz/.
What is the plural of kolkhoz?
The plural of kolkhoz is kolkhozes.

Words near kolkhoz in the dictionary

  1. kolkhose
  2. kolkhoses
  3. kolkhosnik
  4. kolkhosniks
  5. kolkhosy
  6. kolkhoz
  7. kolkhozes
  8. kolkhoznik
  9. kolkhozniki
  10. kolkhozniks
  11. kolkhozniky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kolkhoz (page history and authors); kolkhoz (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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