kolkhoz
/kəlˈkɒz/noun
kolkhoz is a noun meaning “A farming collective in the former Soviet Union” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-L-K-H-O-Z, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kolkhoz is kolkhozes or kolkhozy.
What does kolkhoz mean?
noun
- 1
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kolkhoz?
- /kəlˈkɒz/
- /kɒl-/
- /kɔːl-/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-kolkhoz.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of kolkhoz
- kolkhozes plural
- kolkhozy plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kolkhoz?
Kolkhoz appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Kolkhoz in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense farming collective:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does kolkhoz come from?
From Russian колхо́з (kolxóz), contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство (kollektívnoje xozjájstvo, “collective farm, household”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).