City Block

Definition: City Block

City Block

Noun

1. A rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings; "he lives in the next block".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: City Block

You destroyed half a city block! (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

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Civil Liberties

Armenia

Vilen Botsinian, the station director, refused and a few minutes later the power was cut off in the city block where the station was located. (references)

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Danish

karre med lejligheder (block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block), karre (block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block), husblok (block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block). (various references)

Dutch

woonblok (block, block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block), woningblok (block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block), huizenblok (block, block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block). (various references)

French

pate de maisons, ilot urbain, ilot d'habitation, bloc d'immeubles. (various references)

German

Wohnblock (apartment house, block of flats), Häusergeviert (block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block), Häuserblock (block, block of houses), Baublock (block, block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block). (various references)

Italian

caseggiato (block of buildings, block of flats, group of houses, tenement), isolato urbano (block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block), isolato di case (block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block), blocco di case (block of buildings, block of houses, island site, residential block). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

丁目　 (district of a town), 丁目 (district of a town). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちょうめ (district of a town). (various references)

Pig Latin

itycay ockblay.(various references)

Portuguese

quarteirão (block, quadroon, quarter). (various references)

Spanish

barriada urbana, barriada de la ciudad. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cockily, colicky.

-3 letters: blocky.

-4 letters: block, bocci, cibol, click, clock, cocky, colic, cyclo, kilty, lotic, lytic, octyl.

-5 letters: bilk, bloc, blot, bock, boil, bolt, city, clit, clot, cloy, coil, colt, coly, icky, kilo, kilt, lick, loci, lock, loti, obit, oily, otic, tick, toby, toil, yock, yolk.