Footnote

Quick meaning: Footnote is a noun meaning (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.

Meaning

(by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.

More Meanings

1. A qualification to the import of something.
2. To add footnotes to a text.
3. 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.

Example Sentences

a mere footnote in history

consult the footnotes for more details

She does everything she does with a kind of terrifying thoroughness, footnoted and bibliographied, as it were, down to the smallest detail.

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

Word Forms

• footnotes
• footnoting
• footnoted

Synonyms for footnote

Depending on context, synonyms include asterisk, annotate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include annotate, endnote, notation, cross-reference, annotation, memorandum.

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