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stool¹
- /stuːl/
- /stʉl/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
Rhymes with -uːl
Where it comes from
From Middle English stool, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (“frame, rack, stand”), from *steh₂- (“to stand”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian stuul, stölj, Stööl (“chear”), Saterland Frisian Stoul (“chear”), West Frisian stoel (“chair, seat”), Dutch stoel (“chair”), German Stuhl (“chair”), Low German Stohl (“chair”), Luxembourgish Stull (“chair”), Vilamovian śtül (“chair”), Yiddish שתוהל (shsuhl), שטול (shtul, “chair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stol (“chair”), Faroese stólur (“chair”), Icelandic stóll (“chair”), Crimean Gothic stul (“seat”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌻𐍃 (stōls, “chair; throne”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Estonian tool (“chair”), Finnish tuoli (“chair”); also Breton and Cornish sevel (“to erect, rise; to build; to lift; to compose; to earn”), Irish sáil, sál (“heel”), Scottish Gaelic sàil (“heel”), Welsh sefyll (“to stand; to stop; to sit”), Latin sistō (“to set; to stop; to stand; to stabilise”), Umbrian 𐌔𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌖 (sestu, “to place”), Greek στέκω (stéko), στέκομαι (stékomai, “to stand up”), Albanian shtoj (“to add; to augment; to accumulate”), Lithuanian stálas (“table”), Old Prussian stallan (“table”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian стол (stol, “table”), Czech stůl (“table”), Polish stół (“table”), Serbo-Croatian сто̑, сто̑л, stȏ, stȏl (“table”), Slovak stôl (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Armenian երթալ (ertʻal), էթալ (ētʻal, “to go”), Central Kurdish ستوون (stûn, “column”), Pashto ستن (stən, “needle; awl; pin; syringe; post; hand; dragonfly”), Persian ایستادن (ēstādan / istâdan), وایسادن (vâysâdan), وایستادن (vâystâdan, “to stand up; to step; to stay”), ستون (sotun / sutūn, “column”), Northern Kurdish rawestîn (“to stand up”), stûn (“column”), Ossetian стын (styn, “to stand up”), Hittite 𒋾𒄑𒍣 (tiezzi, “to step; to place oneself”), Tocharian A ṣtäm- (“to stand”), Tocharian B stäm- (“to stand”), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati, “to stand; to stay”). More at stand.
noun stools · stoole
- A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- A footstool.
- A seat with a back; a chair.
- A throne.
- A royal seat; a chief's throne.
- A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. The ground in almost every part of it is covered with stools or stems of Oak, at not more than three feet stool from stool, and these not having been thinned since last cutting, are completely overburdened, and are evidently killing each other and dying for want of nourishment […]
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A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
Similar: can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder, guzunder, honey bucket, honeypot, Jerry
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Feces; excrement.
I provided the doctor with stool samples.
Similar: boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crud, danna, dejection
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A production of feces or excrement; an act of defecation, stooling.
Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed infants during the first month of life.
Similar: boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crud, danna, dejection
- A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays. the fore backstay deadeyes and stool had to be lowered 2 feet
- Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
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A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
Similar: stool pigeon
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An informer to the police.
Similar: stool pigeon
verb stools · stooling · stooled · stoole
- To produce stool: to defecate. Infrequent stooling in the first month of life is almost always due to insufficient intake of milk. A baby who is voiding but not stooling or gaining weight may not be receiving enough high fat hindmilk. Stooling frequency will correct itself with additional feeds or making sure the infant receives
- To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size. […] Those [plants] that generate many small
- To snitch, inform. You can always tell a stool though, that's a fact He's got a yellow streak running down his back He doesn't have to stool He'll always get along on what he takes from blind men's cups.
Similar: defecate
stool²
- /stuːl/
- /stʉl/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
Rhymes with -uːl
Where it comes from
From Latin stolo. See stolon.
noun stools
- Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”). The process of layering is well known: it consists in bending a young branch […] into the soil to a certain depth, and elevating the top part of it out of the soil in an upright direction; in time the buried part takes root, and the shoot becomes a perfect plant. The root which produces the young sh
verb stools · stooling · stooled
- To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills,
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: toilet, commode, crapper, potty, tiller, pot, ordure, fecal matter, bm, faecal matter, feces, faeces, throne, dejection, can, bench
verb
Similar: defecate
Translations
Every language
noun a seat
| Español | taburete, banqueta, taurete, banquillo, banquito, sitial |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 스툴 seutul, 걸상 geolsang |
| 日本語 | スツール sutsūru, ストゥール sutūru |
| 中文 | 凳子 dèngzi, 凳 dèng |
| हिन्दी | तिपाई tipāī, पीढ़ा pīṛhā, चौकी caukī |
| Kiswahili | kiroto |
| Português | banquinho, banco, banqueta, tamborete |
| Français | tabouret |
| Deutsch | Hocker, Taburett, Schemel |
| Italiano | sgabello, trespolo, scanno |
| Ελληνικά | σκαμνί skamní, σκίμπους skímpous |
| Română | taburet |
| Русский | табуре́т taburét, табуре́тка taburétka |
| Tiếng Việt | ghế đẩu |
| العربية | مِقْعَد miqʕad, مَقْعَدَة maqʕada |
| עברית | שְׁרַפְרַף shrafráf |
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title = {stool},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-05}
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