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bloc

noun
/blɒk/UK/blɑk/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). Doublet of block.

  1. derived from *blukką✻
  2. derived from *blokk✻
  3. borrowed from bloc

Definitions

  1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.

    • But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf.

  2. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.

    • military bloc
    • trading bloc
    • Like the iPod and MySpace, the BRICS bloc is a product of the benign optimism of the 2000s.

  3. Bloc Québécois

The neighborhood

Derived

antibloc, Atlantic bloc, black bloc, bloc chip, bloc party, blocwide, Eastern Bloc, interbloc, intrabloc, nonbloc, padded bloc, Soviet Bloc, superbloc, trade bloc, Western Bloc

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bloc. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA