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foot stool

foot stool is the alternative form of footstool.

Meaning of footstool

Noun

footstool (plural footstools)

  1. A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.
    • In Christianity, the world is called the footstool of Christ; in this Sumerian vision, the awakened body would be called the bed of the Queen of Heaven.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 183
  2. (figuratively) Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.
    • Thereafter, when I have eaten and drunken and made merry in my royal palace at Carcë, I will sail with my armies over the teeming deep to many-mountained Demonland. And it shall be my footstool, and these other Demons the slaves of me, yea, and the slaves of my slaves.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21

Forms of foot stool

pluralfoot stools

Questions about foot stool

What is foot stool the alternative form of?
Foot stool is the alternative form of footstool.

Words near foot stool in the dictionary

  1. foot soldiers
  2. foot stalk
  3. foot stalks
  4. foot stick
  5. foot sticks
  6. foot stool
  7. foot stove
  8. foot stoves
  9. foot sweep
  10. foot sweeps
  11. foot the bill

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