high stool
1
3.5
- noun
- /haɪ stuːl/
:
taburete alto
- When she went in with Buzzy over her shoulder, the five children were already sitting at the counter on high stools, swiveling them with the wildness of being let out at last.
- sit on high stools
- high stools at the bar
- high stools at the counter
And we had really high stools that we used to sit up there and inside was this huge great big machine.
- And we had really high stools that we used to sit up there and inside was this huge great big machine.
Examples
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My mother loaded the glasses into the dishwasher, and I resumed my perch on the high stool and at last allowed myself to observe the rabbi.
Fiction book (1997) -
Sally sat on a high stool behind the bar with a floor fan lightly lifting the hair off her shoulders, and the newcomer read aloud from the sign on the wall behind her: "All Domestic Beers $1.25." "Are you going to drink all the domestic beers?" asked the man beside him, laughing aloud at his joke.
Fiction book (1993) -
And we had really high stools that we used to sit up there and inside was this huge great big machine.
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London Pub - Day: Luther sits on a high stool.
Fiction book (1996) -
When Grandma Hollypod got off the high stool, the piano stopped playing.
Fiction book (1999) -
Grandma Hollypod just smiled and sat on the high stool, and the piano played.
Fiction book (1999) -
Reba McIntyre was singing "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia," and Sally swayed with the rhythm on her high stool behind the bar.
Fiction book (1993) -
Eventually I'd settle on a high stool next to the counter, and hook my heels on the stool's upper rungs, and let my clasped hands slide between my denim thighs.
Fiction book (1997) -
We sat on high stools with our forearms resting on the mahogany bar top.
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Mr. McGuire was just as I always found him, perched on a high stool at his desk, engrossed in a book.
Synonyms
95
1.0
A small seat with no back or arms for one person
15
2.3
A tall seat used at a bar or high counter, often with a footrest and no back
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'high' (tall) with 'stool' (a single-person seat); the adjective+noun composition yields the literal sense of a tall seat. This is a common, non-metaphorical construction found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
High stool is simply the name for a very tall stool, a seat that is high enough to sit at a bar or kitchen counter. Because people used these tall seats to reach counters and talk or drink at the bar, the name came to mean 'a tall seat without a back'.