bloc

Synonyms for bloc

MOST RELEVANT

noun. union

noun. group sharing a belief or cause

noun. group sharing a belief or cause

Word Origin & History

1903, in reference to alliances in Continental politics, from French bloc "group, block," from Old French bloc "piece of wood" (see block (n.)).

They relate to potential exports from other countries to the Soviet bloc.

Only $98 of the total went to Communist China, all the rest to the European bloc.

This Bloc consisted of various parties of the Russian bourgeoisie.

That is what the group or bloc system is, a resolution into component parts.

But the whole are really a bloc, the continental sense of which is rather different from our "block."

If they failed to produce the usual amount of rubber on the appointed day they would be put in ‘bloc’ (imprisoned).

The three Representatives of the people belonged to the bloc formed against Robespierre.

If we break up the threatening mass which the war has taught us to fear, there might be organized a thinkers' bloc.

Either of them has the means at its disposal for imitating the farmers and developing a bloc in the national legislature.

My hostility to the bloc is beyond my control, an evolutionary force gathering way.