see|Wool
English

Etymology
Old English wull, from Proto-Germanic *wulno, from Proto-Indo-European *wlna

Pronunciation
RP & US: IPA|/w�l/
audio|en-us-wool.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�l|-�l

Noun
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wool (uncountable)

1. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
2. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
3. Anything with a texture like that of wool.

Derived terms
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andalusian wool
breech wool
burry wool
cotton wool
dead pulled wool
dyed in the wool
fleece wool
glass wool
ice wool
mineral wool
much cry and little wool
pull the wool over somebody's eyes
rag wool
scoured wool
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seed wool
Shetland wool
shorn wool
steel wool
thibet wool
virgin wool
warm as wool
waste of wool
wire wool
wool grease
wool oil
woolgathering
woollen, woolly
woolly, wooly

Translations
trans-top|hair of sheep, etc.
Arabic: ARchar|ص�� unicode|(�u:f)
Breton: gloan m, gloaneier / gloanoù p
Catalan: llana f
Chinese: �� (yángmáo)
Dutch: wol m
Esperanto: lano
Finnish: villa
French: laine f
German: Wolle f
Hungarian: gyapjú
Indonesian: wol
Interlingua: lana
Irish: olann (f)
Italian: lana#Italian|lana f
Japanese: ��� (ūru)
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Korean: �� (teolsil)
Latin: lana|l�na (f)
Malayalam: �മ�പിളി (kampiLi)
Mongolian: ноо� (noos)
Polish: we�na f
Portuguese: lã f
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Russian: �е���� (šerst�) f
Serbian: vuna f
Slovene: volna f
Spanish: lana#Spanish|lana f
Swedish: ull c
Telugu: బ����� (boccu)
Turkish: yün
Ukrainian: вовна (vóvna) f
Welsh: gwlân
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trans-top|cloth or yarn
Arabic: ARchar|ص�� unicode|(�u:f)
Breton: gloanaj m, gloanajoù p, gloanenn f, gloanennoù p
Chinese: �� (yángmáo)
Dutch: wol
Finnish: villa
French: laine f
German: Wolle f
Hungarian: gyapjú
Italian: lana#Italian|lana f
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Japanese: �� (����, y�m�)
Korean: �� (teolsil)
Navajo: aghaa'
Portuguese: lã f
Russian: �е���� (šerst�) f
Serbian: predja, prtilica
Spanish: lana#Spanish|lana f
Swedish: ylle n
Telugu: �న�ని (unni)
Ukrainian: вовна (vóvna) f
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trans-top|anything with a texture like that of wool
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Adjective
wool (no comparative or superlative)

1. Made of wool.

Synonyms
woollen, woolen

Translations
made of wool
See woollen, woolen

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