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
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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
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The footer included a note that the site is not affiliated with or endorsed by Chan, is meant as parody, and is paid for by Wiener’s campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
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 Cougars would stay ahead until Kaylynne Truong, hit the 27 footer at the buzzer to knot the score.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
McIlroy reached halfway under par, but only after holing an eight footer for birdie on the last.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2023
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
An obituary from Sail World reported that he won four UK grand prix titles with Team Pica in the 18 footers class and also European titles, including the coveted Mark Foy Trophy regatta.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2022
"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
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
You may center act/scene headers and footers if they are centered in the book, but it's usually best to left-align them, for the same reasons it's usually best to left-align poem titles in poetry.
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Jim Tinsley
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