stool

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
2. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
3. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
4. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
5. A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
6. A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
7. Feces, excrement.
8. A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
9. A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
10. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
11. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Verb

1. To produce stool: to defecate.
2. To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Verb

To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

Synonyms

chair

🪑

seat

💺

feces

bench

excrement

faeces

ordure

dung

fecal matter

shit

💩

footstool

dejection

taboret

defecate

crap

take a crap

sofa

🛋️

small bench

couch

🛋️

take a shit

faecal matter

ca-ca

toilet

🚽

excreta

tiller

throne

make

bowel movement

can

commode

crapper

form

manure

pot

potty

root

turd

BM

armchair

tabouret

tuffet

lavatory seat

scat

place

settle

sheet

pillow

pedestal

small table

snitch

ottoman

springboard

sprout

stepladder

stool pigeon

stub

stump

support

night soil

hassock

fecula

excrements

relieve nature

human excrement

relieve the bowels

die shoe

exaction

dirt

decoy

highchair

shite

stump of a tree

defaecate

chairs

baffle plate

tree stump

window stool

small stepladder

evacuate bowels

poop

💩

void excrement

caca

pouffe

privy

prune

purge

radix

ease nature

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/stuːl/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: stool

Inherited from Old English: stōl

Cognate with Fries: stoel

Cognate with Nederlands: stoel

Cognate with Duits: Stuhl

Cognate with Sweeds: -

Cognate with Noors: -

Cognate with Deens: stol

Cognate with Fins: tuoli

Cognate with Estnies: tool

Cognate with Litaus: stálas

Cognate with Russies: стол

Cognate with Russies: стул

Cognate with Serwo-Kroaties: stol

Cognate with Sloweens: stol

Cognate with Albanees: kështalle

Cognate with Antieke Grieks: στήλη

In summary

From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, “table”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). More at stand.
The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).