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noun
A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Broader terms: seat
noun
A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A footstool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Broader terms: seat
noun
A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A seat with a back; a chair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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Broader terms: seat
noun
A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A throne.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, dialectal, figuratively, literally, uncountable
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Broader terms: seat
noun
A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A royal seat; a chief's throne.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Africa, West, countable, uncountable
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Broader terms: seat
noun
A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
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Synonyms: can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder, guzunder, honey bucket, honeypot, Jerry, john, johnny, jordan, latrine, mingo, necessary stool, pan, pee pot, pisspot, piss pot, po, pot, potty, potty-chair, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, slop bucket, stool, stool of easement, throne, thunder mug, toilet, urinal, big white telephone, bog, crapper trapper, donniker, dunny, head, highway to hell, jacks, jakes, khazi, lav, pisser, pooper, porcelain god, porcelain goddess, porcelain throne, privy, Quincy, shitter, toot, bathroom, necessarium, toilet room, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet, jacques, kocay, siege, cludgie, neddy, netty, shield, six, facilities, ladies and gentlemen, lavatory, lavabo, necessary, necessary room, office, office of ease, place, small room, smallest room, throne room, cottage, geography, House of Lords, usual offices, restroom, teahouse, tearoom, washroom, comfort room, CR, closet of decency, closet of ease, house of office, necessary place, purging place, vault, withdraught, wardrobe, urination station, carsey, karzy, lats, lavvy, loo, thunderbox, bogger, brasco, dike
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle
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noun
Feces, excrement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
Synonyms: boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crud, danna, dejection, dirt, do do, doo-doo, doody, dook, dookie, dooky, droppings, dump, dumplings, dung, Eartha, Eartha Kitt, excrement, faeces, faex, fecal matter, feces, flop, fudge, gong, ish, jobby, merd, muck, nature, number two, ordure, poo, pooh, poop, poopie, poo-poo, poopy, pure, purging, scat, sharn, shit, shite, soil, stool, thost, tom tit, turd, waste
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noun
A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: big jobs, bowel movement, cack, call of nature, crap, crapping, defecating, defecation, doing one's ease, doing one's easement, dump, dumping, easement, hod, motion, number two, poo, pooh, poop, purging, sharn, shit, shitting, spraying, taking a shit
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noun
A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, rare
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verb
To produce stool: to defecate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle
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verb
To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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noun
a simple seat without a back or arms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: seat
Narrower terms: campstool, cutty stool, footstool, footrest, ottoman, tuffet, milking stool, music stool, piano stool, step stool, taboret, tabouret
noun
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, throne
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plumbing fixture
Narrower terms: flushless toilet, flush toilet, lavatory, potty seat, potty chair
noun
(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: stump, tree stump
noun
solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, ordure, dejection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product
Narrower terms: dog shit, dog do, doggy do, dog turd, crap, dirt, shit, shite, poop, turd, droppings, dung, muck, meconium, melena, melaena
verb
have a bowel movement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
Narrower terms: dung
verb
grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tiller
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
verb
react to a decoy, of wildfowl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: react, respond
verb
lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: entice, lure, tempt
History
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. The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).
From Latin stolo. See stolon.
Across languages
189 source translations are retained for this English entry.
