Definitions for footstep

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footstep foot·step

Spelling: [foo t-step]

IPA: /ˈfʊtˌstɛp/

Footstep is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in footstep (efoopstt).

Definitions for footstep

noun

1. the setting down of a foot, or the sound so produced; footfall; tread.
2. the distance covered by a step in walking; pace.
3. a footprint.
4. a step by which to ascend or descend.

Idioms

1. follow in someone's footsteps, to succeed or imitate another person.

Origin of footstep

First recorded in 1175-1225, footstep is from the Middle English word foote steppe. See foot, step

Examples for footstep

He had recognised the footstep while it was yet seventy mtres away.

"I heard a footstep in the hall, and it was my duty to see who was passing," he said.

No sound of footstep was stirring; no sign of human figure in sight.

For three years I had been listening to the voice of Hope, and for three years I had waited for a footstep on my threshold.

Yes, it was a footstep light and rapid, coming along the gravel-walk.

But no footstep ever passed the floor immediately below: except his own.

The footstep, real or imagined, broke our conversation at that point, and we did not resume it.

Here is something like the footstep of one who has worn a shoe; can it be that of our friend?

And yet she knew that she was listening—listening in dread—for a footstep in the house.

You can hear every footstep, which detracts from the experience exponentially.