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bloc
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukk? (“beam, log”). Doublet of block.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /bl?k/
- (UK) IPA(key): /bl?k/
- Homophone: block
Noun
bloc (plural blocs)
- A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
- 2020: "Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020" by Geoffrey Skelley and Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight
- 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.
- 2020: "Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020" by Geoffrey Skelley and Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight
- A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
Derived terms
- black bloc
- Eastern Bloc
- Soviet Bloc
- trade bloc
Translations
Anagrams
- CLOB, LCBO
Catalan
Etymology
From French bloc
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?bl?k/
Noun
bloc m (plural blocs)
- block
- bloc
Further reading
- “bloc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bloc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “bloc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bloc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukk? (“beam, log”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bl?k/
Noun
bloc m (plural blocs)
- a block (e.g., of wood)
- a bloc, an alliance
- a pad of paper
- (computing) block (of memory, of code)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “bloc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English block or from a Romance language.
Noun
bloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic)
- block
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
References
- "bloc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French bloc. Doublet of block and bloque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?blok/, [?blok]
Noun
bloc m (plural blocs)
- pad (such as of paper)
bloc From the web:
- what blocks give villagers jobs
- what blocks the moon
- what blocks iron absorption
- what block are transition metals in
- what blocks wifi signals
- what block is durk from
- what blocks radiation
- what blocks are ghast proof
brotherhood
English
Etymology
From Middle English brotherhod, equivalent to brother +? -hood, from earlier brotherhede, alteration (influenced by suffixes in -hood, -head) of Early Middle English brotherrede (“brotherhood, fraternity”), from Old English br?þorr?den (“brotherhood, fellowship”), equivalent to brother +? -red (see brotherred). More at brother, -red.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b??ð?h?d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??ð?h?d/
- Hyphenation: broth?er?hood
Noun
brotherhood (countable and uncountable, plural brotherhoods)
- The state of being brothers or a brother.
- An association for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession
- People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, s:Degenerate Douglas
- a brotherhood of venerable trees
- 1800, William Wordsworth, s:Degenerate Douglas
Synonyms
- fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality, brethren
Hypernyms
- (state): siblinghood
Translations
See also
- sisterhood
Further reading
- brotherhood in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- brotherhood in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- brotherhood at OneLook Dictionary Search
brotherhood From the web:
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- what brotherhood means
- what brotherhood means to me
- what brotherhood member took shelter
- is the brotherhood of steel good
- is brotherhood of steel good or bad
- how to join brotherhood of steel
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