Definitions
a group of countries in special alliance
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“military bloc”
“trading bloc”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Political alliance”4 letters
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