bench

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A long seat for two or more people, often found in parks.

   They sat on a park bench and fed the ducks.

2. 2
   noun

   A long, heavy table for doing work; a workbench.

   She placed the tools on the bench and started working.

3. 3
   noun

   The place where players who are not playing sit during a game.

   He spent the first three games on the bench.

4. 4
   verb

   To take a player out of a game.

   The coach benched him after the mistake.

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Simplified etymology

Bench is an Old English word. It is related to the Scandinavian-derived word bank in the sense of the land beside a river; the source says the other senses of bank ultimately share the same root.

From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-. Cognate with Scots benk, bink (“bench”), West Frisian bank (“bench”), Dutch bank (“bench”), German Bank (“bench”), Danish bænk (“bench”), Swedish bänk (“bench”), Icelandic bekkur (“bench”). Doublet of banc, banco, and bank.

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