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BLOC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloc mean? 

BLOC (noun)
  The noun BLOC has 1 sense:

1. a group of countries in special allianceplay

  Familiarity information: BLOC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLOC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of countries in special alliance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

axis; bloc

Hypernyms ("bloc" is a kind of...):

alignment; alinement; alliance; coalition (an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bloc"):

scheduled territories; sterling area; sterling bloc (the group of countries whose currencies are tied to the British pound sterling)


 Context examples 


An area, as large perhaps as Sussex, has been lifted up en bloc with all its living contents, and cut off by perpendicular precipices of a hardness which defies erosion from all the rest of the continent.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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