bather
Americannoun
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bathers
plural
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a person or thing that bathes.
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(used with a plural verb) bathers, a bathing suit.
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Origin of bather
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He’s a bather in a Bruckner ocean, the waves rolling over him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
Despite the "significant concerns and objections" raised, the application did meet "the sole criterion for designation under the regulations, namely there is evidence of bather numbers", he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024
Every few minutes, a bather walked into the chilly lake, then scurried, shivering, back toward the hot pools.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2021
If only every intermittent bather had those instincts.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2021
Sooner or later, in either case, the bather must sit down—and where then is his personal dignity?
From The Comforts of Home by Ralph Bergengren
When I attended the sound bath, about 100 people filled the hall and Whitmore opened the meditation by asking how many new sound bathers were here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Later that decade, Avery befriended Rothko and then Gottlieb, and by 1932 all three were summering in Gloucester, spending their mornings sketching or painting the harbor, the wharfs, the sea, the beach and the bathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
With its spectacular white formations rounded by erosion, the so-called 'moon beach' has bathers packed tighter than an astronaut's suit during summertime.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Millions of customers, surfers and bathers have joined a chorus that former pop star Feargal Sharkey has been singing for years - that the sector is a “chaotic shambles”.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
I sat in the sun and watched the bathers on the beach.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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