kortteli.
block, city block (group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets)
Meaning & usage
block, city block (group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets)
Kävelen vain korttelin ympäri.
local, neighbourhood (used of service establishments serving a small area in a city)
korttelikuppila
block (distance from one street to another in a city)
Scandinavian unit of length, which equalled one fourth of a kyynärä or half a foot; approximately 0.148 meters
Russian unit of length, equal to 0.1778 meters
unit of volume, equal to 0.32715 liters
mug of roughly this volume
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Swedish kvartel, variant of kvarter, from Middle Low German kwartēl, from Medieval Latin quartārium, from Latin quārtus.
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