bleacher

[blee-cher]

noun

1. Usually bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.

2. a person or thing that bleaches.

3. a container, as a vat or tank, used in bleaching.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bleacher¹

1540–50; 1885–90 bleacher for def. 1; bleach + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“As a friend told me, ‘I reached the top of the mountain for my craft,’” Goodrich told Poly students who filled up the bleachers.

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A crowd of thousands pounded their feet on bleachers creating a thunderous sound as the sun set over the wealthy Forest Hills neighborhood.

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When the ball landed in the right-center field bleachers, a party more than three decades in the making broke out among the 44,353 in attendance at the Rogers Centre.

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But this was no substitute for them playing on a team—or for me cheering on the bleachers.

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“This was for him,” McKinley said of his brother watching from the bleachers.

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