bleacher

American  

[blee-cher] / ˈbli tʃər /

noun

• bleachers
  plural

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.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bleachers
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bleacher

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

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Example Sentences

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bleacher bleachers

The picture was not so sharply focused from the bleacher seats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

David Pountney’s 2008 production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s “Die Soldaten” included a 974-seat bleacher containing the audience that slowly rolled down train tracks over a football field-length runway.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

Additional bleacher and field seating were added for the event, which helped create space for the largest crowd in the 100-year history of Memorial Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

The team recently unveiled a new logo for the Dawg Pound - the team’s notorious bleacher section - that was voted on by fans.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

A couple minutes later, he carefully set the decibel counter on the bottom bleacher, patted down his pockets, then followed Ms. Banks onto the dance floor, smiling broadly.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

A pesky contact hitter with a high average and propensity for reaching base goes first, while the beefy slugger capable of launching moonshots into the bleachers lives in the middle to drive in runners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Empty swaths of Coliseum bleachers hadn’t been as much of a concern for Riley, who had never fallen below the 60,000-fan mark at home until Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The meet, which was staged in a gym with one set of bleachers and fans sitting on mats, was an intimate warm up for the arena stage Ohashi will take at the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The problem was most of those balls were on the ground, resulting in lots of routine outs instead of balls soaring toward the bleachers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Maya and I started going to the basketball games to cheer from the bleachers.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

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