footer
Americannoun
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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
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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 Cougars would stay ahead until Kaylynne Truong, hit the 27 footer at the buzzer to knot the score.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
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
But as the new footer for its company statements reads, “Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.”
From The Verge • May 31, 2022
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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