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footnoting

footnoting is the present participle and gerund of footnote.

Meaning of footnote

Verb

footnote (third-person singular simple present footnotes, present participle footnoting, simple past and past participle footnoted)

  1. 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

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Questions about footnoting

What is footnoting the present participle and gerund of?
Footnoting is the present participle and gerund of footnote.

Words near footnoting in the dictionary

  1. footnote
  2. footnoted
  3. footnoter
  4. footnoters
  5. footnotes
  6. footnoting
  7. footpace
  8. footpaces
  9. footpad
  10. footpadded
  11. footpaddery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footnoting (page history and authors); footnote (page history and authors). 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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