- (often in compounds) a seat with legs but with nothing to support your back or arms
- a bar stool
- a piano stool
- She pulled up a stool next to me.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high
- tall
- small
- …
- be perched on
- perch on
- sit (down) on
- …
- (medical) a piece of solid waste from your bodyTopics Healthcarec2
Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, also to stand.
Idioms
See stool in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryfall between two stools
- (British English) to fail to be or to get either of two choices, both of which would have been acceptableTopics Difficulty and failurec2
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