city block

English

Noun

city block (plural city blocks)

1. The smallest part of a town enclosed by streets.

   The store is huge, occupying an entire city block.

2. The distance from one urban street to the next, or an approximately comparable distance.

   In Lawrence, a mile is generally 12 city blocks east-west or 8 blocks north-south.

   Go along that road for about a city block, and you should see an old barn.

Usage notes

• Distance can vary widely from roughly one fifth to one half kilometer (one eighth to one third of a mile).

Translations

part of town enclosed by streets

• Bashkir: квартал (kvartal)
• Catalan: illa (ca)
• Dutch: blok (nl), huizenblok (nl), bouwblok (nl)
• Finnish: kortteli (fi)
• French: pâté de maisons (fr) m, îlot urbain, îlot (fr), île (fr)
• Greek: τετράγωνο (el) n (tetrágono)
• Italian: isolato (it) m
• Polish: blok budowlany m
• Portuguese: quarteirão (pt) m
• Russian: кварта́л (ru) m (kvartál), жилой массив (žiloj massiv)
• Spanish: manzana (es) f, cuadra (es) f
• Swedish: kvarter (sv) n

distance from one street to next

• Finnish: kortteli (fi), kadunväli
• Russian: кварта́л (ru) m (kvartál)
• Spanish: cuadra (es) f
• Swedish: kvarter (sv) n