stool meaning

stool as a noun

1. a simple seat without a back or arms

   Type of: seat

   Kinds: campstool, cutty stool, footstool, milking stool, music stool, step stool, taboret

2. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

   Synonyms: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, ordure, dejection

   Type of: body waste

   Kinds: dog shit, crap, droppings, meconium, melena

3. (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

   Type of: stump

4. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

   Synonyms: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, throne

   Type of: plumbing fixture

   Kinds: flushless toilet, flush toilet, potty seat

stool as a verb

1. lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

   Type of: entice

2. react to a decoy, of wildfowl

   Type of: react

3. grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

   Synonyms: tiller

   Type of: grow

4. have a bowel movement
   • The dog had made in the flower beds

   Synonyms: defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make

   Type of: excrete

   Kinds: dung

How to pronounce stool

stool is pronounced /stuːl/ in British English and /stul/ in American English. It has 1 syllable.

Words that rhyme with stool

• rule
• pool
• school
• cool
• fool
• mule
• drool
• spool