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stoel.

a chair, a piece of furniture used for sitting, normally portable and having four legs

5 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/stul/
  1. a chair, a piece of furniture used for sitting, normally portable and having four legs

    masculine
  2. any seat, from stool to throne; a dais

    broadly · masculine
  3. the base on which something rests, e.g. platform; something fixed on it, notably a workbench

    masculine
  4. a place of residence, headquarters, powerbase

    masculine
  5. a receptacle, stool, a type of stump

    masculine
  6. a confessional chair

    masculine · obsolete
  7. fecal stool

    masculine · obsolete · uncountable
  8. a toadstool, a mushroom

    masculine · obsolete
Where this word comes from

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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