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footwear

Syllables: foot·wear/ˈfʊtwɛə(ɹ)/

footwear noun: accesories or clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.

footwear: accesories or clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc
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Noun

footwear (usually uncountable, plural footwears)

  1. (usually) Accesories or clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.
    • Yohji Yamamoto's strength was to stick with the sportswear that has inspired him since he teamed up with Adidas to create the imaginative pin-striped or painted-denim footwear that walked his grass-turf runway.2002 January 29, Suzy Menkes, “PARIS FASHION : Wind of Change:New Formality With a Rugged Edge”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    feetwear, footgear

footwear meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

footwear in Hindi

फुटवियर

footwear in Tamil

item of clothing that is worn on the foot
காலணி kālaṇi

footwear in Marathi

पादत्राण

footwear in Bengali

পাদুকা, জুতা
More languagesFewer languages
footwear in Telugu
పాదరక్షలు pādarakṣalu
footwear in Malayalam
പാദരക്ഷ pādarakṣa
footwear in Kannada
ಕಾಲ್ಕೆರ್ಪು, ಕಾಲ್ಗೆರಹು, ಮೆಟ್ಟು, ಕಾಲ್ಮರೆ
footwear in Gujarati
પગરખું pagarkhũ
footwear in Odia
ପାଦୁକା
footwear in Arabic
حِذَاء ḥiḏāʔ, مَشَّايَة maššāya
footwear in Indonesian
alas kaki
footwear in Persian
پاافزار pâ-afzâr
footwear in Vietnamese
giày dép

Examples of footwear in a sentence

  • The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.
  • In comparison with the soccus and the solea, the calceus was a more formal footwear.
  • Wall Street was making a market in footwear but Main St. was seeing stores close.

All 24 example sentences with footwear

Synonyms of footwear

Forms of footwear

pluralfootwears

Plural of footwear: footwears

Origin of footwear

From foot + -wear.

Words formed from footwear

Questions about footwear

What does footwear mean?
Footwear means accesories or clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.
What is footwear in Hindi?
Footwear in Hindi is फुटवियर. See Footwear meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is footwear?
Footwear is a noun.
How do you pronounce footwear?
Footwear is pronounced /ˈfʊtwɛə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of footwear?
The plural of footwear is footwears.

Words near footwear in the dictionary

  1. footwarmer
  2. footwarmers
  3. footwashing
  4. footway
  5. footways
  6. footwear
  7. footwears
  8. footwell
  9. footwells
  10. footwheel
  11. footwheels

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: footwear (page history and authors); footwear (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footwear (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footwear (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); footwear (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પગરખું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); footwear (Odia, 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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