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

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Etymology

Origin of footer

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

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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

Jarrad Branthwaite could be the key physical centre-back and as a left footer will bring balance to the defence but this pick could also go to Levi Colwill.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

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

Scheffler built a lead as large as six shots not by bombing it by everybody, not by hitting iron after iron stiff, not by rolling in 30 footers — but with a little of everything.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 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

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

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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