cinder-blockとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cinderblock

名詞

cinder block (plural cinder blocks)

1. A lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete.

同意語

• breeze-block
• clinker block
• hollow block

語源

From cinder +‎ block.

形容詞

cinderblock (not comparable)

1. Made of cinder blocks.

   They lived in an old cinderblock apartment building.

名詞

cinderblock (plural cinderblocks)

1. Alternative form of cinder block.
   • 2007 April 4, Nate Schweber, “Man Queried in Killings of Prostitutes”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 5 June 2015:

     Investigators also searched a shed behind the house that sat next to two automobiles on cinderblocks.