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[ foot-noht ] / ˈfʊtˌnoʊt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR footnote ON THESAURUS.COM
nounan explanatory or documenting note or comment at the bottom of a page, referring to a specific part of the text on the page. a minor or tangential comment or event added or subordinated to a main statement or more important event. verb (used with object), foot·not·ed, foot·not·ing.to add a footnote or footnotes to (a text, statement, etc.); annotate: to footnote a dissertation. Origin of footnoteFirst recorded in 1835–45; foot + note Words nearby footnotefootloose, footloose and fancy-free, footman, footmark, footmen's gallery, footnote, footpace, footpad, footpath, footplate, foot-pound Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for footnoteWhen I wrote the novel about the Gulag, House of Meetings, the name Stalin only appears in a footnote very early on. Martin Amis Talks About Nazis, Novels, and Cute Babies|Ronald K. Fried|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST By the time "decisions need to be made" about 2016, Christie said, "I think this will be a footnote." Chris Christie’s YOLO Attitude for 2016|Olivia Nuzzi|May 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST To put things into perspective, had Gore won his home state, Florida would have been relegated to a footnote. Memo to the 2016 GOP: Winning Your Home State Matters|Lloyd Green|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST A footnote toward the end of the book gives a short, wonderful history of human adornment, but the discussion remains didactic. Objectively Speaking: Stephanie LaCava’s ‘An Extraordinary Theory of Objects’|Lauren Elkin|December 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He happened to have a copy of the 2009 paperback at hand, glanced through it, and again overlooked the footnote. Meet The Man Who Wrongly Accused Fareed Zakaria of Plagiarism|David Frum|August 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST Footnote 5: Nobbler--the Australian term for a glass of wine or spirits. Grif|B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon Footnote 78: This secret meeting-place of the Huguenots is well known from the engraved picture of Boze. The Huguenots in France|Samuel Smiles. Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and the footnote moved to the end of the magazine. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885|Various Footnote 327: The words are written in one MS. at length, "decimo tertio." Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2|J. Endell Tyler Anchors for footnote 33 and 34 were added, after careful consideration where they should have been. The Heritage of Dress|Wilfred Mark Webb
British Dictionary definitions for footnote
nouna note printed at the bottom of a page, to which attention is drawn by means of a reference mark in the body of the text an additional comment, as to a main statement verb(tr) to supply (a page, book, etc) with footnotes Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to footnoteexplanation, reference, afterthought |