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lightfoot

Syllables: light·foot/ˈlaɪtfʊt/

lightfoot adjective: light-footed.

Adjective

lightfoot (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Light-footed.
    • There was no comfort in the goodliness of spring or the bright sunshine weather, and she who had been wont to go about the doors lightfoot and blithe was now as dowie as a widow woman.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
    • There she alighted from her light-foot beast, / And sitting downe upon the rocky shore, / Bade her old Squire unlace her lofty creast […]1906, original 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii

Proper noun capitalized: Lightfoot

Lightfoot (countable and uncountable, plural Lightfoots)

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
  2. An unincorporated community in James City County, Virginia, United States.

Forms of lightfoot

Adjective
alternative formlight-foot
Proper noun
pluralLightfoots

Origin of lightfoot

From Middle English light-fot, light-foot, from light (adjective) + fot, foot (noun). See more at light, foot.

From light + foot, a nickname for a messenger or fast runner.

Phrases with lightfoot

Questions about lightfoot

What does lightfoot mean?
Lightfoot means light-footed.
What part of speech is lightfoot?
Lightfoot can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lightfoot?
Lightfoot is pronounced /ˈlaɪtfʊt/.

Words near lightfoot in the dictionary

  1. lightfield camera
  2. lightfield cameras
  3. lightfields
  4. lightfingered
  5. lightfingeredness
  6. lightfoot
  7. lightfooted
  8. lightfootedly
  9. Lightfoots
  10. lightfront
  11. lightfronts

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