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bloque

block

noun BLOH-keh Less Common

Origin: From French bloc.

Also means

bloc; apartment block

Usage Note

Bloque covers a physical block (a block of stone, a city block), a political or trading bloc (bloque comercial), and in Latin America an apartment building or housing block. In computing and construction it appears as bloque de código or bloque de hormigón. The phrase en bloque means 'as a whole / en bloc'.

Examples

"Viven en el tercer piso del bloque."

Natural Translation

They live on the third floor of the apartment block.

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