footer
Syllables: foot·er/ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/
footer noun: a footgoer; pedestrian.
Noun (1)
footer (plural footers)
- A footgoer; pedestrian
- A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
- Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.
- The new boat is a six-footer.
- Both of my sons are six-footers.
- Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.
- a right-footer
Noun (2)
footer (countable and uncountable, plural footers)
Verb
footer (third-person singular simple present footers, present participle footering, simple past and past participle footered)
- To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.
- Synonyms:
- fidget, fuss, trifle, arse about, arse around, bludge, bum around, cabbage, clown around, dally
footer meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
footer in Hindi
- पादलेख, फुटर, फ़ुटर
footer in Marathi
- फुटर
footer in Urdu
- فوٹر
footer in Bengali
- ফুটার
More languagesFewer languages
- footer in Telugu
- ఫుటర్
- footer in Malayalam
- ഫൂട്ടർ
- footer in Kannada
- ಅಡಿಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ
- footer in Punjabi
- ਫੁੱਟਰ, ਫ਼ੁੱਟਰ
- footer in Gujarati
- ફૂટર, ફુટર, ફૂટેર
- footer in Odia
- ଫୁଟର୍
- footer in Nepali
- फुटर
- footer in Malay
- pengaki
- footer in Indonesian
- bola kaki, sukuan, kaki
Examples of footer in a sentence
- Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.
- They use mega menus carefully, with a mega footer only on the home page.
- To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.
Synonyms of footer
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Forms of footer
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | footers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | footers |
| present participle | footering |
| past participle | footered |
| past | footered |
| alternative form | foutre |
| alternative form | fouter |
Origin of footer
From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.
From football + -er (“Oxford -er”).
18th century. From fouter, foutre (“valueless thing”), possibly from French foutre (“to lecher”), from Latin futuere (“to fuck”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”).
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Questions about footer
- What does footer mean?
- Footer means a footgoer; pedestrian.
- What is footer in Hindi?
- Footer in Hindi is पादलेख, फुटर, फ़ुटर. See Footer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is footer?
- Footer can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce footer?
- Footer is pronounced /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of footer?
- The plural of footer is footers.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: footer (page history and authors); footer (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footer (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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