footnote
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
footnote
- 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.
- Coordinate terms: headnote#English|headnote, endnote#English|endnote, hatnote#English|hatnote, marginal note#English|marginal note
- consult the footnotes for more details
- (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
- a mere footnote in history
- 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe ↗", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:
- 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.
- A qualification to the import of something.
- French: note en bas de page, note de bas de page
- German: Fußnote
- Portuguese: nota de rodapé
- Russian: сно́ска
- Spanish: nota, nota
- German: Fußnote
footnote (footnotes, present participle footnoting; past and past participle footnoted)
- To add footnotes to a text.
- Synonyms: annotate
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