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footpaths

footpaths is the plural of footpath.

Meaning of footpath

Noun

footpath (plural footpaths)

  1. Any set path or trail to be used by people walking.
    • I felt refreshed after the short rest, and bade the old man farewell and started for town in company with the scared lad, following the footpath below the Grefsen hill.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 160
    Synonyms:
    footpad, footway, walkway
  2. (Australia, India, Ireland, New Zealand) A paved path located at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians.

Questions about footpaths

What is footpaths the plural of?
Footpaths is the plural of footpath.

Words near footpaths in the dictionary

  1. footpassed
  2. footpasses
  3. footpassing
  4. footpath
  5. footpathed
  6. footpaths
  7. footpaw
  8. footpaws
  9. footpedal
  10. footpedals
  11. footpeg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footpaths (page history and authors); footpath (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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