Bloc
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bloc¹
- /blɒk/ UK
- /blɑk/ US
Sounds like block · Rhymes with -ɒk
Where it comes from
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.
noun blocs
- 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.
- A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance. military bloc
Bloc²
Where it comes from
Diminutive of Bloc Québécois.
proper noun the Bloc
- Bloc Québécois
