footage
Syllables: foot·age/ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/
footage noun: an amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
Noun
footage (countable and uncountable, plural footages)
- An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
- The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
- The footage of this scene has been re-used in several later films where a good, convincing train smash was required, notably in "Seven Sinners" (1937).1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90
- A measurement in feet.
- […]more and more contractors are buying Southern pine in greater footages per order.1965, The Southern Lumberman, volume 211, page 36
- Starting footages should go above the line at the start of the sound and finishing footages beneath the line at the end of it.1976, John Burder, 16mm Film Cutting, CRC Press
footage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
footage in Hindi
- फुटेज, फ़ुटेज
footage in Tamil
- அடிக்கணக்குக் கட்டண வீதம், அடியளவு, காட்சிகள், காணொளிக் கோப்பு, காணொளியின், நிகழ்படத்தின்
footage in Marathi
- फुटेज
footage in Urdu
- فوٹیج
More languagesFewer languages
- footage in Bengali
- ফুটেজ
- footage in Telugu
- ఫుటేజీ, ఫుటేజ్
- footage in Malayalam
- ഫൂട്ടേജ്
- footage in Punjabi
- ਫੁਟੇਜ, ਫੂਟੇਜ, ਫ਼ੁਟੇਜ
- footage in Gujarati
- ફૂટેજ, ફૂટેજીસ
- footage in Odia
- ଫୁଟେଜ୍, ଫୁଟେଜ
- footage in Nepali
- फुटेज
Examples of footage in a sentence
- The streamer was the first to cast footage of the new game.
- In the bodycam footage he is heard using graphic language to berate her.
- His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.
Forms of footage
| plural | footages |
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Origin of footage
From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips. Compare typologically French métrage.
Words formed from footage
Questions about footage
- What does footage mean?
- Footage means an amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
- What is footage in Hindi?
- Footage in Hindi is फुटेज, फ़ुटेज. See Footage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is footage?
- Footage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce footage?
- Footage is pronounced /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of footage?
- The plural of footage is footages.
Words near footage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: footage (page history and authors); footage (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); footage (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footage (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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