🇬🇧 Block meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A block is a section of a street in a town or city. If you stand at a street corner where two roads cross and walk to the next corner where another road crosses, the distance you walked is one block. Cities are often made of many blocks that fit together like a big grid, and people use blocks to say how far away something is, like “The park is three blocks from my house.”

There’s one house on our block that decorates so hard for holidays the rest of the street looks like it forgot what month it is.

We tried to start a parade on our block, but only three kids and a confused pigeon showed up.

Our teacher marched us around the block to learn directions, but we mostly learned how easily we walk in circles.

The ice-cream shop moved one block farther away, and my little brother called it “the saddest news in history.”

Some city blocks are famous for being huge or super tiny—so if you say, “It’s only one block away,” you might mean “two minutes” or “pack a lunch and maybe a tent.”

A little girl loses her cat on a block. She runs across the block and looks by every door. She walks one block to the next corner, then back along the block. A man points to a tree at the far side of the block. The girl finds the cat, hugs it, and smiles.

This word is at the A2 level, which means it’s useful for simple, everyday situations. You might use it when shopping, traveling, or talking about your hobbies. Words at this level help you build confidence in practical, routine conversations.

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