footer

American  

[foot-er] / ˈfʊt ər /

noun

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  

/ ˈfuːtə, ˈfuːtər /

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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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

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

Stanford freshman star Harrison Ingram rebounded Jalen Graham’s missed 10 footer with nine seconds left and weaved his way up court but had the ball stripped as the spun in the lane.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022

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