city block
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈsɪti blɑk/
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manzana
- And so in Newark, when I was mayor, we were able to create an entire city block as a farm.
- a square city block
Tom, tell me about the city blocks that you've built out over these past couple years.
- Tom, tell me about the city blocks that you've built out over these past couple years.
- And so in Newark, when I was mayor, we were able to create an entire city block as a farm.
- And in Geneva, there's a Freeport that is, you know, like maybe a city block or two.
- To do what Jane Jacobs did, and what some novelists do, spend a week carefully watching a city block or a subway platform or an elevator.
- Particular crimes The man who burnt a city block, The one who left a homeless vet for dead.
- And you know, city blocks across the United States were all tubed up for gas delivery.
- It took an entire city block behind Union Station, and they were rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Examples
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The Worthington spans three city blocks and is located only 20 minutes from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
Academic text (1993) -
The modern, single-story homes fill all four sides of a city block and offer low-income families affordable housing.
Academic text (2011) -
And this bank was in the middle of a whole city block.
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So in many situations, some of these office buildings can be a city block wide.
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Squad was stopped on a city block that seemed safe.
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It's four city blocks long and it's got...
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It's an ugly building about the size of a city block and a couple of stories high.
Fiction book (1990) -
A whole city block was in ruins, just like one big shopping mall.
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The modern, single-story homes fill all four sides of a city block and offer low-income families affordable housing.
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Opened in 1913, the 217-room hotel occupies a full city block in the heart of Wilmington.
Synonyms
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1.0
An area of city streets containing several buildings
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Morphology
The meaning 'a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets' is directly and compositionally derived from 'city' (urban area) + 'block' (a block of streets/buildings); a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the compound meaning. This compound structure is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English noun-noun composition, so it is immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The term city block comes from the idea of a block, a solid square or group of buildings cut off by streets on all sides. Picture a block of houses surrounded by roads; that's why city block means 'an area of the city surrounded by streets'.