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footed

/ˈfʊtɪd/

footed is the simple past and past participle of foot.

Adjective

footed (comparative more footed, superlative most footed)

  1. Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.
    • Scarsely had Phœbus in the glooming East / Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, / Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 2
    • This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find / The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late / Tie leaden pounds to's heels.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (in-compounds, usually) Consisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).
    • As for the strict forms in which the original poems were written, it seemed an empty exercise to force English into those particular strictures, which in Bengali literary tradition are richly associative but which in English are not. The familiar fourteen-syllable payār couplet with its aa bb cc...2003, Tony K. Stewart, Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore, The Lover of God, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, p. 12
    • each six-footed line of the verse
  3. Having a foot

Meaning of foot

Verb

foot (third-person singular simple present foots, present participle footing, simple past and past participle footed)

  1. (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
  2. (transitive) To pay (a bill).
  3. To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
    • There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
  4. To walk.
    • thieves do foot by nightc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  5. (archaic) To set foot on; to walk on.
    • […] Or shepherd-boy, they featly foot the green1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens
  6. (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
    • What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

See all 34 meanings of foot

Synonyms of footed

Forms of footed

comparativemore footed
superlativemost footed

Origin of footed

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From Middle English foted, i-foted, equivalent to foot + -ed.

Words formed from footed

Phrases with footed

Questions about footed

What does footed mean?
Footed means having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.
What is footed the simple past and past participle of?
Footed is the simple past and past participle of foot.
What part of speech is footed?
Footed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce footed?
Footed is pronounced /ˈfʊtɪd/.

Words near footed in the dictionary

  1. footdraggers
  2. footdragging
  3. footdraggings
  4. footdrop
  5. foote
  6. footed
  7. footed drum
  8. footed drums
  9. footed it
  10. footed the bill
  11. footed up

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