Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who, or that which, bleaches.

    a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)

  2. (US, usually plural)A stand of tiered planks used as seating for spectators, often outdoors.

    There could be a rough crowd out in the bleachers.

    Zuschauerbänke, Sitztribüne, Sitzreihen

    трибу́ныtribúny

  3. (US, broadly, usually plural)The tiered seating provided for the audience at a television filming.

Examples

25 sentences
  1. Sami was sitting on the bleachers.

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  2. The stadium still has its bleachers.

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  3. Vladimir sat alone on the bleachers.

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  4. Tom and Mary sat in the bleachers.

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  5. Ziri started walking back to the bleachers.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
seating for spectators:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
seating for spectators:

Origin

From Middle English blechere, equivalent to bleach + -er. Compare Dutch bleker, Swedish bl

From Middle English blechere, equivalent to bleach + -er. Compare Dutch bleker, Swedish blekare. The seating was so named because the boards were bleached by the sun.

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Forms

plural: bleachers
Singularbleacher
Pluralbleachers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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