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Plural of footnote

regular plural

The plural of footnote is footnotes.

Forms of footnote

Singularfootnote /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/
Pluralfootnotes
Countablecountable

Footnotes in a sentence

  • consult the footnotes for more details
  • 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
  • All the gory information is in the footnotes to the financial statements.2011 January 11, Ann C. Logue, MBA, Emerging Markets For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry gory
  • GAAP, companies are required to disclose information about their accounting choices and their expenses in the footnotes.2011 January 11, Ann C. Logue, MBA, Emerging Markets For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry gory
  • Even pros who are experienced at reading the footnotes face this problem.2003, Michelle Leder, Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry fine print

Meaning of footnote

  1. 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.
  2. noun An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
  3. noun A qualification to the import of something.

Full definition of footnote

Questions about the plural of footnote

What is the plural of footnote?
The plural of footnote is footnotes.
Is footnote countable?
Footnote is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: footnote (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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