Noun wool the hair or fur of sheep, mouflon, alpaca, llama, vicuña a cloth or yarn made from the hair of sheep. anything with a texture like wool. Related terms woolly, wooly cotton wool mineral wool pull the wool over their eyes'' Translations Breton: gloan m -eier / -où pl (1), gloanaj m -où pl, gloanenn f -où pl (2) Dutch: wol m Esperanto: lano French: laine f German: Wolle m Indonesian: wol Interlingua: lana Japanese: ウール (ūru) Mongolian: ноос (noos) Polish: wełna f Portuguese: lã f Spanish: lana f Turkish: yün See also Wikipedia article on wool.