"footnote" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/ [UK], /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-footnote.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-footnote.wav [US] Forms: footnotes [plural]
Etymology: From foot + note. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|foot|note}} foot + note Head templates: {{en-noun}} footnote (plural footnotes)
  1. 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. Translations (comment at the bottom of a printed page): ծանոթագրություն (canotʿagrutʿyun) (Armenian), 腳註 (Chinese Mandarin), 脚注 or 腳注 (jiǎozhù) (Chinese Mandarin), 脚注 (jiǎozhù) (Chinese Mandarin), poznámka pod čarou [feminine] (Czech), fodnote [common-gender] (Danish), voetnoot [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), piednoto (Esperanto), allmärkus (Estonian), alaviite (Finnish), note en bas de page [feminine] (French), note de bas de page [feminine] (French), Fußnote [feminine] (German), υποσημείωση (yposimeíosi) [feminine] (Greek), પાદટીપ (pādṭīp) (Gujarati), lábjegyzet (Hungarian), catatan kaki (Indonesian), fonóta [masculine] (Irish), 脚注 (kyakuchū) (alt: きゃくちゅう) (Japanese), 脚註 (kyakuchū) (alt: きゃくちゅう) (Japanese), 각주 (gakju) (Korean), подножна белешка (podnožna beleška) [feminine] (Macedonian), фуснота (fusnota) [feminine] (Macedonian), nota kaki (Malay), fo-note [masculine] (Manx), fo-screeuyn [masculine] (Manx), kupu tāpiri (Maori), kupu āpiti (Maori), kīwae (Maori), fotnote [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fotnote [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), przypis [masculine] (Polish), nota de rodapé [feminine] (Portuguese), ਪਗ ਟਿੱਪਣੀ (pag ṭippaṇī) [feminine] (Punjabi), сно́ска (snóska) [feminine] (Russian), примеча́ние (primečánije) [neuter] (Russian), eàrr-nota [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), nota [feminine] (Spanish), nota a pie de página [feminine] (Spanish), fotnot [common-gender] (Swedish), talababa (Tagalog), dipnot (Turkish), haşiye (Turkish), troednodyn [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-footnote-en-noun-iJLB7gK1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 38 7 Disambiguation of 'comment at the bottom of a printed page': 95 3 2
  2. (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related. Tags: broadly Synonyms: asterisk Translations (event of lesser importance): alaviite (Finnish), Fußnote [feminine] (German), υποσημείωση (yposimeíosi) [feminine] (Greek), lábjegyzet (Hungarian), mellékes megjegyzés (Hungarian), 부차적인 존재 (buchajeogin jonjae) (Korean)
    Sense id: en-footnote-en-noun--c7WhGOB Disambiguation of 'event of lesser importance': 1 88 10
  3. A qualification to the import of something.
    Sense id: en-footnote-en-noun-cmo7jZgJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: f.n. [abbreviation]

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/ [UK], /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-footnote.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-footnote.wav [US] Forms: footnotes [present, singular, third-person], footnoting [participle, present], footnoted [participle, past], footnoted [past]
Etymology: From foot + note. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|foot|note}} foot + note Head templates: {{en-verb}} footnote (third-person singular simple present footnotes, present participle footnoting, simple past and past participle footnoted)
  1. To add footnotes to a text. Synonyms: annotate Related terms: marginalia, reference mark
    Sense id: en-footnote-en-verb-x2y9ypPT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: f.n. [abbreviation]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714",
          "text": "Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
          "tags": [
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          "roman": "pag ṭippaṇī",
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          "roman": "snóska",
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          "word": "сно́ска"
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          "roman": "primečánije",
          "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
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          "word": "примеча́ние"
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          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
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          "word": "eàrr-nota"
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          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
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          "word": "nota"
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          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
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          "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
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          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
          "word": "talababa"
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          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
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          "word": "dipnot"
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          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
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          "word": "haşiye"
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          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
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          "text": "a mere footnote in history",
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          "ref": "2012, Martin McQuillan, Political Archive of Paul de Man, page 72",
          "text": "If we are another footnote to Plato, Plato was himself already a footnote to still earlier footnotes, in an endless chain of footnotes to footnotes",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.",
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        "(by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related."
      ],
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          "word": "asterisk"
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          "word": "alaviite"
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          "sense": "event of lesser importance",
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "yposimeíosi",
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          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "buchajeogin jonjae",
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          "word": "부차적인 존재"
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      "roman": "canotʿagrutʿyun",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "ծանոթագրություն"
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      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
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      "roman": "jiǎozhù",
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      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
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      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "piednoto"
    },
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "allmärkus"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "alaviite"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "note de bas de page"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fußnote"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "yposimeíosi",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "υποσημείωση"
    },
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      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "pādṭīp",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "પાદટીપ"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "lábjegyzet"
    },
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "catatan kaki"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fonóta"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きゃくちゅう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kyakuchū",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "脚注"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きゃくちゅう",
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kyakuchū",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "脚註"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gakju",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "각주"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "podnožna beleška",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "nota kaki"
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "kupu tāpiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "kupu āpiti"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "kīwae"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "fotnote"
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      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fotnote"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "przypis"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nota de rodapé"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "pag ṭippaṇī",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਪਗ ਟਿੱਪਣੀ"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "snóska",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сно́ска"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "примеча́ние"
    },
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "eàrr-nota"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nota"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fotnot"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "talababa"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "dipnot"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "word": "haşiye"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "comment at the bottom of a printed page",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "troednodyn"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "event of lesser importance",
      "word": "alaviite"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "event of lesser importance",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Fußnote"
    },
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "event of lesser importance",
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      "word": "υποσημείωση"
    },
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    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "event of lesser importance",
      "word": "mellékes megjegyzés"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "buchajeogin jonjae",
      "sense": "event of lesser importance",
      "word": "부차적인 존재"
    }
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}

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