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

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

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2023

There’s still a link to a Currents page in the footer on the Google Workspace page, but clicking on it takes you to the page for Google Chat.

From The Verge • Feb. 10, 2022

Scroll to the bottom of the front page to look for the contact details in the footer and see if it’s a template.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 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