stoel
Pronunciation: /stul/
“stoel” is a Dutch word. Its 8 meanings in English:
noun
- a chair, a piece of furniture used for sitting, normally portable and having four legs
- any seat, from stool to throne; a dais
- the base on which something rests, e.g. platform; something fixed on it, notably a workbench
- a place of residence, headquarters, powerbase
- a receptacle, stool, a type of stump
- a confessional chair
- fecal stool
- a toadstool, a mushroom
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stoel, from Old Dutch stuol, from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
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