footnote
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footnote
- /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/ UK
- /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/ US
Where it comes from
From foot + note.
noun footnotes · f.n.
- 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. consult the footnotes for more details
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An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
a mere footnote in history
Similar: asterisk
- A qualification to the import of something.
verb footnotes · footnoting · footnoted · f.n.
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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.
Similar: annotate
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: annotate, endnote, notation, cross-reference, annotation, memorandum, postscript, memo, cite, page, baseline, note, coverage, record, referencing, benchmark
Translations
Every language
noun comment at the bottom of a printed page
| Español | nota, nota a pie de página |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 각주 gakju |
| 日本語 | 脚注 kyakuchū, 脚註 kyakuchū |
| 中文 | 腳註 /脚注 or 腳注 /脚注 jiǎozhù, 註腳 /注脚 zhùjiǎo |
| Português | nota de rodapé |
| Français | note en bas de page, note de bas de page |
| Deutsch | Fußnote |
| Italiano | nota a piè di pagina |
| Ελληνικά | υποσημείωση yposimeíosi |
| Русский | сно́ска snóska, примеча́ние primečánije |
noun event of lesser importance
| 한국어 | 부차적인 존재 buchajeogin jonjae |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 註腳 /注脚 zhùjiǎo |
| Deutsch | Fußnote |
| Ελληνικά | υποσημείωση yposimeíosi |
Talk about this word "footnote." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/footnote. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. footnote. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/footnote "footnote." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/footnote.Cite this
@misc{footnote_2026,
title = {footnote},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/footnote},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
