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bleacher

Syllables: blea·cherUK/ˈbliː.t͡ʃəː//ˈbli.t͡ʃɚ/

bleacher noun: one who, or that which, bleaches.

bleacher: one who, or that which, bleaches
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Noun

bleacher (plural bleachers)

  1. One who, or that which, bleaches.
  2. (US, plural-normally) A stand of tiered planks used as seating for spectators, often outdoors.
    • There could be a rough crowd out in the bleachers.
    • It seemed silly for the crowd to applaud or groan over what you had already felt in your fingers or even in your arms as you braced to shoot or for that matter in your eyes: when he was hot he could see the separate threads wound into the strings looping the hoop. Yet at the start of the game when...1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 34
    Synonyms:
    stand, terrace
  3. (US, broadly, plural-normally) The tiered seating provided for the audience at a television filming.
    • In practice, audience members often have badly obstructed views of the sets—whether due to obstructive camera dollies and production personnel or viewers sitting in the bleachers off to the side of the set that is currently being used.2010, Jeremy G. Butler, Television Style

bleacher meaning in Tamil

bleacher in Tamil

நிறம் நீக்கி, சாயம் கோக்குபவர், வெளிறச் செய்பவர், வெளிறச்செய்யும் வண்ண நீக்கப்பொருள்

Examples of bleacher in a sentence

  • Warnings such as "watch your step" can be provided when there is a small step off a bleacher to the pavement or ground level.1999, Jim Puhalla, Jeff Krans, Mike Goatley, Sports Fields: A Manual for Design, Construction and Maintenance - Page 371:
  • We prefer bleacher seats to Grandstand Sections 1-9.2004, Josh Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell, The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip:

All 15 example sentences with bleacher

Synonyms of bleacher

Forms of bleacher

pluralbleachers

Plural of bleacher: bleachers

Origin of bleacher

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.

Words formed from bleacher

Words that rhyme with bleacher

Questions about bleacher

What does bleacher mean?
Bleacher means one who, or that which, bleaches.
What is bleacher in Tamil?
Bleacher in Tamil is நிறம் நீக்கி, சாயம் கோக்குபவர், வெளிறச் செய்பவர். See Bleacher meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bleacher in a sentence?
Warnings such as "watch your step" can be provided when there is a small step off a bleacher to the pavement or ground level.
What part of speech is bleacher?
Bleacher is a noun.
How do you pronounce bleacher?
Bleacher is pronounced /ˈbliː.t͡ʃəː/ (UK).
What is the plural of bleacher?
The plural of bleacher is bleachers.

Words near bleacher in the dictionary

  1. bleachable
  2. bleached
  3. bleached blond
  4. bleached ginger
  5. bleached gingers
  6. bleacher
  7. bleachered
  8. bleacheries
  9. bleacherite
  10. bleacherites
  11. bleacherlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bleacher (page history and authors); bleacher (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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