What does footnote mean?
Definitions for footnote
ˈfʊtˌnoʊtfoot·note
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word footnote.
Princeton's WordNet
footnote, footerverb
a printed note placed below the text on a printed page
annotate, footnoteverb
add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
"The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel"
Wiktionary
footnotenoun
A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text
footnotenoun
An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related
footnoteverb
To add footnotes to a text; to annotate
ChatGPT
footnote
A footnote is a printed note or piece of information placed at the bottom of a page in a book or document, intended to clarify, explain, or provide additional information about a particular point or topic in the main text referenced with a superscript number or symbol.
Webster Dictionary
Footnotenoun
a note of reference or comment at the foot of a page
CrunchBase
Footnote
Footnote.com is a subscription website featuring tens of millions of original source documents from the world’s finest archives available on the Internet for the first time, including military records, naturalization papers, and historical newspapers. Footnote.com also allows free viewing and uploading of user-contributed content including old photos, letters, and documents. Users can annotate, spotlight, and connect records.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of footnote in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of footnote in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of footnote in a Sentence
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko:
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz:
The president seeks judges who understand that justice is not about some abstract legal theory, or a footnote in a casebook, but it is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of peoples’ lives.
The Postal Service has long promised that' [ n ] either snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, the Court rightly added the obvious footnote : fixing an election and cost-cutting can not cut it as an exception to that promise.
It didn't seem like he had reached the apogee of his career, i don't know if it'll be relegated to a footnote, but maybe only one chapter in a lengthy book of accomplishments.
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- poznámka pod čarouCzech
- troednodynWelsh
- FußnoteGerman
- υποσημείωσηGreek
- piednotoEsperanto
- notaSpanish
- allmärkusEstonian
- alaviite, sivuseikkaFinnish
- note en bas de page, note de bas de pageFrench
- fonótaIrish
- eàrr-notaScottish Gaelic
- fo-screeuyn, fo-noteManx
- lábjegyzetHungarian
- ծանոթագրությունArmenian
- notaItalian
- 脚注, 脚註Japanese
- 각주, 부차적인 존재Korean
- kupu tāpiriMāori
- fotnoteNorwegian
- voetnootDutch
- fotnoteNorwegian Nynorsk
- przypisPolish
- nota de rodapéPortuguese
- примечание, сноскаRussian
- fotnotSwedish
- haşiye, dipnotTurkish
- виноскаUkrainian
- chú thíchVietnamese
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