engine block

1. 1.

   a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine

   “the engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked”

   Synonymscylinder blockblock

   Broadercast

   Part ofinternal-combustion enginereciprocating engine

   Partscylinder

Questions about engine block

What does engine block mean?

engine block means "a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine".

What is another word for engine block?

Close synonyms include cylinder block, 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 engine block a common word?

engine 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.