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.

  2. The stadium still has its bleachers.

  3. Vladimir sat alone on the bleachers.

  4. Tom and Mary sat in the bleachers.

  5. Ziri started walking back to the bleachers.

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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