BENCH
What does "BENCH" mean?
A long seat for several people, typically made of wood or stone.
Meanings
- A long backless or backed seat for two or more people. They sat on a park bench watching the ducks.
- A sturdy work table for a craftsman or laboratory. The carpenter clamped the plank to his bench.
- The office of a judge, or judges collectively; the court. The lawyer approached the bench to confer with the judge. technical
- The reserve players of a sports team, or their seating area. He spent the whole match on the bench.
- To withdraw a player from active play. The coach benched the striker after the foul.
Did you know?
- 'Bench' and 'bank' grew from the same Germanic root for a long seat or raised shelf: medieval Italian moneychangers traded over benches ('banca'), so the seat itself eventually named the financial bank.
Word origin
From Old English 'benc', from Proto-Germanic 'bankiz', the same root that gives 'bank' - a raised shelf of earth and, by extension, the long seat.
Remember it
BENCH: a place to sit and 'bench' your legs - and the judge's BENCH is just the most important seat in the room.
A little poem
Empty park bench waits-
two strangers, one shared armrest,
a whole afternoon.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why is the judge's seat the most reliable in the courtroom? Because the bench never wavers - and it'll always overrule the sofa.
What it teaches
Time on the bench is not the end of the game; it is where you learn to read it.
Quick facts
What does BENCH mean?
A long seat for several people, typically made of wood or stone.
Is BENCH a valid word?
Yes — BENCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BENCH?
BENCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BENCH come from?
From Old English 'benc', from Proto-Germanic 'bankiz', the same root that gives 'bank' - a raised shelf of earth and, by extension, the long seat.
What can BENCH teach us?
Time on the bench is not the end of the game; it is where you learn to read it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.