city block

1. 1.

   a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings

   “he lives in the next block”

   Synonymsblock

   Broaderarea

Questions about city block

What does city block mean?

city block means "a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings".

What is another word for city block?

Close synonyms include block. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is city block a common word?

city block is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.