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
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
He just refused to be beaten and had to hole a closing six footer for birdie to go lower in relation to par than any previous major champion.
From BBC ● May 20, 2024
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
The bones were first dug up by the unnamed contractor on May 23 as footers were being dug for a new home.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
An obituary from Sail World reported that he won four UK grand prix titles with Team Pica in the 18 footers class and also European titles, including the coveted Mark Foy Trophy regatta.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
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
Even though chapter and page headers and footers were supplied with the text of this book when we received it, it would appear this is fairly obviously mostly scanner output, which may explain punctuation.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas
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