houseblock

noun

houseblock

noun

US /haʊsˈblɒk/

Etymology From house + block.

1

A group of houses.

The term can designate both a street or a houseblock surrounded by streets and, by extension, a town quarter. The latter is by far the commonest meaning of the term.1998, George John Lolos, Studies in the topography of Sikyonia:

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