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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A group of nations, parties, or persons united for common action.
  • noun An often bipartisan coalition of legislators acting together for a common purpose or interest.

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  • noun a group of voters or politicians who share common goals
  • noun a group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a group of countries in special alliance

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, block; see block.]

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From French bloc ("group, block"), from Middle French bloc ("a considerable piece of something heavy, block"), from Old French bloc ("log, block"), from Middle Dutch blok ("treetrunk"), from Old Saxon *blok ("log"), from Proto-Germanic *bluk(k)an (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old High German bloh, bloc (German Block, "block"), Old English bolca ("gangway of a ship, plank"), Old Norse bǫlkr (Norwegian bolk, "divider, partition"). More at balk.

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