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blocos

blocos is the plural of bloco.

Meaning of bloco

Noun

bloco (plural blocos)

  1. A type of Brazilian street carnival featuring traditional Brazilian music and dance such as samba and frevo, often with hundreds of thousands to millions of people in attendance.
    • It's not clear how many blocos nationwide are eschewing offensive lyrics, or why it's created so much controversy this year.2017 February 23, “Brazil's Carnival Becoming More 'Politically Correct'”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022

Questions about blocos

What is blocos the plural of?
Blocos is the plural of bloco.

Words near blocos in the dictionary

  1. blockwork
  2. blockworks
  3. blockworthy
  4. blocky
  5. bloco
  6. blocos
  7. blocs
  8. blocwide
  9. BLOD
  10. Blodeuwedd
  11. blodge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blocos (page history and authors); bloco (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.

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