"bleacher" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbli.t͡ʃɚ/ [General-American], /ˈbliː.t͡ʃə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: bleachers [plural]
enPR: blēʹ-chər [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -iːtʃə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English blechere, equivalent to bleach + -er. Compare Dutch bleker, Swedish blekare. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|blechere}} Middle English blechere, {{suf|en|bleach|er|id2=agent noun}} bleach + -er, {{cog|nl|bleker}} Dutch bleker, {{cog|sv|blekare}} Swedish blekare Head templates: {{en-noun}} bleacher (plural bleachers)
  1. One who, or that which, bleaches. Translations (one who bleaches): 漂白劑 (Chinese Mandarin), 漂白剂 (piǎobáijì) (Chinese Mandarin), blekare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-bleacher-en-noun-ru~zsMHd Disambiguation of 'one who bleaches': 90 5 5
  2. (US, usually in the plural) A stand of tiered planks used as seating for spectators, often outdoors. Tags: US, plural-normally Synonyms: stand, terrace Translations (seating for spectators): graderies [feminine, plural] (Catalan), 露天看台 (Chinese Mandarin), tribune (Dutch), place de tribune non-couverte (French), gradin [masculine] (French), Zuschauerbänke [feminine, plural] (German), Sitztribüne [feminine] (German), Sitzreihen [feminine, plural] (German), fedetlen lelátó (Hungarian), gradinate [feminine, plural] (Italian), tribuner [masculine] (Norwegian), trybuna [feminine] (Polish), arquibancada (Portuguese), трибуны (tribuny) (Russian), gradas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), gradería [masculine] (Spanish), graderío [masculine] (Spanish), läktare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-bleacher-en-noun-JIZ53UgZ Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 46 25 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 24 50 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 20 53 27 Disambiguation of 'seating for spectators': 5 65 31
  3. (US, television, usually in the plural, by extension) The tiered seating provided for the audience at a television filming. Tags: US, broadly, plural-normally Categories (topical): Television
    Sense id: en-bleacher-en-noun-RkEToYr8 Categories (other): American English Topics: broadcasting, media, television
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: bleachery

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.