FOOTNOTE

footnote, footer

(noun) a printed note placed below the text on a printed page

annotate, footnote

(verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; “The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

footnote (plural footnotes)

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, endnote, hatnote, marginal note

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

A qualification to the import of something.

Verb

footnote (third-person singular simple present footnotes, present participle footnoting, simple past and past participle footnoted)

To add footnotes to a text.

Synonym: annotate

Source: Wiktionary


Foot"note`, n.

Definition: A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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