bloc
UK/blɒk//blɑk/
bloc noun: a group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
Noun
bloc (plural 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.2020 May 11, Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel Rakich, “Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020”, in FiveThirtyEight, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2020
- How that impacts Asia’s most stable democracy will become clearer only in the weeks ahead. Sunday’s vote was a mid-term election for the less powerful, upper house of the legislature. And the Sanseito party, while surging, is still only the fourth-largest bloc in that chamber.2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025
- A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.
- military bloc
- trading bloc
Proper noun capitalized: Bloc
the Bloc
bloc meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
bloc in Hindi
- group of countries
- गुट guṭ
bloc in Tamil
- கட்சிகளின் திரளணி, கூட்டணி
bloc in Urdu
- جماعتوں کی انجمن, ملکوں کی انجمن
bloc in Malayalam
- coalition, alliance, federation
- ചേരി, കക്ഷി, സംഘം, സംഘടന, സംയുക്തസംഘടന, സഖ്യം
More languagesFewer languages
- bloc in Arabic
- كُتْلَة kutla
- bloc in Persian
- بلوک blok
- bloc in Vietnamese
- khối
Examples of bloc in a sentence
- President Nixon tried to make leaders of communist bloc countries believe he was a volatile, irrational pugilist.
- That view contrasts with analysis from BloombergNEF that sees slight growth this year in the bloc.
- The mesogastriums were extracted en bloc from the stomach, straightened and measured for their length and width.
Forms of bloc
| plural | blocs |
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Origin of bloc
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.
Diminutive of Bloc Québécois.
Words formed from bloc
Phrases with bloc
Words that rhyme with bloc
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sock
- unlock
- baroque
- flock
- locke
- mock
- ad hoc
- frock
- unblock
- undock
- VOC
- chock
- defrock
- nock
- o'clock
- prairie dock
- proc
- smock
- acock
- amok
- bangkok
- Carvel Rock
- doc
- grok
- hough
- loch
- pock
- slock
- wedlock
- wok
- 24-hour clock
- bock
- bok
- brocc
- choc
- croc
- digital clock
- drop lock
- Farallon Rock
- flight sock
- freezer block
- gock
- hashlock
- hock
- kozachok
- lough
- Nixon shock
- oc
Questions about bloc
- What does bloc mean?
- Bloc means a group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
- What is bloc in Hindi?
- Bloc in Hindi is गुट (guṭ). See Bloc meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bloc?
- Bloc can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bloc?
- Bloc is pronounced /blɒk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bloc?
- The plural of bloc is blocs.
Words near bloc in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bloc (page history and authors); Bloc (page history and authors); bloc (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bloc (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bloc (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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