bleacher
bleacher Lexical Profile
bleacher Game Scores & Validity
• noun
North American A tiered bench seat or raised structure of rows of benches for spectators at a sports field, gymnasium, or arena (usually used in the plural).
"The students crowded onto the wooden bleachers to cheer for the home basketball team."
A worker whose occupation is whitening textiles, paper, or other materials, or a vessel or chemical agent used for bleaching.
"In the nineteenth-century textile mill, the bleacher carefully treated the raw linen before it was sent to the dyers."
Word Nuance & Usage
When referring to stadium seating, the word is almost exclusively used in the plural form ('bleachers'), though the singular form appears as an adjunct before another noun (e.g., 'a bleacher seat').
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Word Origin & Etymology
The stadium seating sense arose in the late 19th-century United States, originally referring to uncovered wooden benches that were 'bleached' by exposure to the sun (or that bleached the spectators sitting on them).