Synonyms for stool

Grammar : Noun

Spell : stool

Phonetic Transcription : stul

Définition of stool

Origin : Old English stol "seat for one person," from Proto-Germanic *stolaz (cf. Old Frisian stol, Old Norse stoll, Old High German stuol, German Stuhl "seat," Gothic stols "high seat, throne"), from PIE *sta-lo-, locative of root *sta- "to stand" (cf. Lithuanian pa-stolas "stand," Old Church Slavonic stolu "stool;" see stet).
Originally used of thrones (cf. cynestol "royal seat, throne"); change of meaning began with adoption of chair from French, which relegated stool to small seats without arms or backs, then "privy" (early 15c.) and thence to "bowel movement" (1530s).

noun seat

Example sentences :

Gracie, shielded by the distance, turned on her stool and studied him.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

His head dropped back on his chair; he propped his sagging legs on a stool.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

In the kitchen their mother sat on a stool, and peeled potatoes.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

And, casting the pen down, he turned his stool round impatiently.
Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard

And he sprang from his stool, as their teacher entered the schoolroom door.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

On a stool was the unfinished model of Fecundity swathed in wet cloths.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

She was sitting on a stool waiting for him, and when he entered she rose.
Extract from : « Father Sergius » by Leo Tolstoy

Lorilleux, seized with a fit of coughing, almost doubled up on his stool.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

Against this the pirate was outlined as he sat on his stool.
Extract from : « In the Orbit of Saturn » by Roman Frederick Starzl

Roma had returned to the stool, and was resting her elbows on her knees and gazing into the fire.
Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine

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