footer

American  

[foot-er] / ˈfʊt ər /

noun

• footers
  plural

1. British Informal.

   1. Rugby.

   2. soccer.

2. 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.

3. Computers. a line of information placed at the end of a page for purposes of identification.

4. Archaic. a person who walks; walker; pedestrian.

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footer ¹ British  

/ ˈfʊtə /

noun

1. archaic a person who goes on foot; walker

2. (in combination) a person or thing of a specified length or height in feet

   a six-footer

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footer ² British  

/ ˈfuːtər, ˈfuːtə /

verb

1. to potter; occupy oneself trivially or to little effect

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noun

1. a person who footers

footer ³ British  

/ ˈfʊtə /

noun

1. informal short for football

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• footers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of footer

First recorded in 1600–10; foot + -er ¹

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.

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

footer footers

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

McIlroy reached halfway under par, but only after holing an eight footer for birdie on the last.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2023

We wound up talking about verb tenses Homes’ defense attorney Lance Wade pointed out that Theranos’ physical address and website were at the bottom of that Pfizer memo, in the footer.

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

Foden and Nico O'Reilly as natural left footers have shown that same quality at times too.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

"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

The top log was a sixteen-foot butt; the two bottom logs were eighteen footers.

From The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne