footer
Americannoun
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footers
plural
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British Informal.
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a person or thing having or associated with a height or length of a foot or a specified number of feet (often used in combination).
a six-footer.
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Computers. a line of information placed at the end of a page for purposes of identification.
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Archaic. a person who walks; walker; pedestrian.
noun
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archaic a person who goes on foot; walker
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(in combination) a person or thing of a specified length or height in feet
a six-footer
verb
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of footer
Explanation
A footer is a bit of printed text at the very bottom of a page. The most common kind of footer is a page number. In academic writing, page numbers are frequently formatted as footers centered at the bottom — or "foot" — of each page. When the page numbers of the novel you're reading are printed at the bottom of the pages, you can call those footers too. A footnote is different from a footer, although both come at the end of a page — footnotes appear less regularly, and each one is different, while a footer follows a regular pattern.
Vocabulary lists containing footer
Example Sentences
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Epstein’s emails sometimes included a footer that read “Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The New York Post covered Trump's declaration with a bottom-of-front-page footer irreverently headlined, "Florida Man Makes Announcement".
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2022
Order online at romaboots.com, or look for the link in the website’s footer to locate local retailers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
The text of the footer was considerably smaller than the Pfizer logo at the top of the page, suggesting the relative importance of each piece of information.
From The Verge ● Nov. 2, 2021
I gasped inside and Dri gasped out loud when we dared to look at it: a whale, a hundred footer.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
"But now it’s more like you know I don’t want to watch players coming down shooting 50 footers, you know. That’s not basketball."
From Fox News ● Sep. 5, 2021
Ireland also brought in a code of practice last month, under which employers should add "footers and pop-up messages to remind employees... that there is no requirement to reply to emails out of hours".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2021
These were the kinds of scoring and rebounding feats you’d see from seven footers such as Wilt Chamberlain.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2021
He closed with difficult, par-saving 7 footers on the 17th and 18th holes.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 8, 2017
Then there was all kinds of flags, from little ten centers to big twenty footers swung across the street.
From Torchy and Vee by Ford, Sewell
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