footnote
/ˈfʊtˌnəʊt//ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/
footnote noun: a short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.
Noun
footnote (plural footnotes)
- A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.
- consult the footnotes for more details
- Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but...1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714
- An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
- a mere footnote in history
- If we are another footnote to Plato, Plato was himself already a footnote to still earlier footnotes, in an endless chain of footnotes to footnotes2012, Martin McQuillan, Political Archive of Paul de Man, page 72
- Synonyms:
- asterisk
- A qualification to the import of something.
Verb
footnote (third-person singular simple present footnotes, present participle footnoting, simple past and past participle footnoted)
- To add footnotes to a text.
- She does everything she does with a kind of terrifying thoroughness, footnoted and bibliographied, as it were, down to the smallest detail.1979 April 14, Nancy Walker, “Kiss and Tell”, in Gay Community News, page 13
- Synonyms:
- annotate
footnote meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
footnote in Hindi
- फुटनोट
footnote in Tamil
- அடிக்குறிப்பு
footnote in Marathi
- फुटनोट, फूटनोट
footnote in Urdu
- حاشیہ, شرح
More languagesFewer languages
- footnote in Bengali
- পাদটীকা padṭika
- footnote in Telugu
- ఫుట్నోట్, ఫుట్ నోట్, ఫుట్నోటింగ్
- footnote in Malayalam
- അടിക്കുറിപ്പ്
- footnote in Kannada
- ಅಡಿಬರಹ, ಅಡಿ ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ
- footnote in Punjabi
- ਪਗ ਟਿੱਪਣੀ pag ṭippaṇī
- footnote in Gujarati
- પાદટીપ pādṭīp
- footnote in Odia
- ପାଦଟୀକା
- footnote in Nepali
- फुटनोट, पादलेख, फुटनोटिङ
- footnote in Tagalog
- talababa
- footnote in Malay
- nota kaki
- footnote in Indonesian
- catatan kaki
Examples of footnote in a sentence
- In the footnote attached to this statement Rosen refers to the “hypnotic” quality of Kojève’s system.
- But, this information is relegated to a footnote, and no examples of dubiously English words are provided.
- I am indebted to Øystein Linnebo for alerting me to the points in this footnote.
Synonyms of footnote
Forms of footnote
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | footnotes |
| alternative form | f.n. |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | footnotes |
| present participle | footnoting |
| past participle | footnoted |
| past | footnoted |
Origin of footnote
From foot + note.
Words formed from footnote
Questions about footnote
- What does footnote mean?
- Footnote means a short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.
- What is footnote in Hindi?
- Footnote in Hindi is फुटनोट. See Footnote meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is footnote?
- Footnote can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce footnote?
- Footnote is pronounced /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of footnote?
- The plural of footnote is footnotes.
Words near footnote in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: footnote (page history and authors); footnote (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footnote (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); footnote (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footnote (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); পাদটীকা (Bengali) (page history and authors); footnote (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footnote (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); footnote (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); footnote (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footnote (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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