Word.ws English Dictionary

block heater

block heater noun: an electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather.

Noun

block heater (plural block heaters)

  1. An electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather.
    Synonyms:
    cylinder-block heater, engine-block heater

Synonyms of block heater

  • cylinder-block heater
  • engine-block heater

Forms of block heater

pluralblock heaters

Origin of block heater

block+heater: From being a heating unit for a vehicular engine block

Questions about block heater

What does block heater mean?
Block heater means an electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather.
What part of speech is block heater?
Block heater is a noun.
What is the plural of block heater?
The plural of block heater is block heaters.

Words near block heater in the dictionary

  1. block graphs
  2. block group
  3. block groups
  4. block head
  5. block heads
  6. block heater
  7. block heaters
  8. block holder
  9. block holders
  10. block hole
  11. block holes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: block heater (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “block heater.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/block_heater. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.