Definitions for footnote

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footnote foot·note

Spelling: [foo t-noht]

IPA: /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/

Footnote is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in footnote (efnooott).

Definitions for footnote

noun

1. an explanatory or documenting note or comment at the bottom of a page, referring to a specific part of the text on the page.
2. a minor or tangential comment or event added or subordinated to a main statement or more important event.

verb (used with object)

1. to add a footnote or footnotes to (a text, statement, etc.); annotate:

Origin of footnote

First recorded in 1835-45; foot + note

Examples for footnote

A footnote toward the end of the book gives a short, wonderful history of human adornment, but the discussion remains didactic.

Transcriber's note:No anchor for this footnote could be found on this page.

When I wrote the novel about the Gulag, House of Meetings, the name Stalin only appears in a footnote very early on.

He happened to have a copy of the 2009 paperback at hand, glanced through it, and again overlooked the footnote.

Transcriber's note: No footnote text was found for this footnote marker.

Mr. Logan writes to the papers for an explanation which is given in a footnote.

Well, they ought to print the thing, if only as a footnote to your drawings, Sis.

By the time "decisions need to be made" about 2016, Christie said, "I think this will be a footnote."

The record of what she did is but a footnote to the page of what she suffered.

To put things into perspective, had Gore won his home state, Florida would have been relegated to a footnote.