footnote en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From foot + note.
Meanings
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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.
consult the footnotes for more details
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.
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
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(broadly) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
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
2012, Martin McQuillan, Political Archive of Paul de Man, page 72:a mere footnote in history
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.
2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:Now, with her new book Beyond the Wall, Hoyer is seeking to retrieve the GDR from being written off as a chilling “footnote in German history”, a miserably grey country synonymous with unflinching totalitarianism.
2023 April 28, Frederick Studemann, “Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC:
- A qualification to the import of something.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| f.n. | alternative | lexicographic | |
| footnotes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
hatnote · endnote · marginal note · headnote
Deriveds
Synonyms
Translations (52)
ja 脚註 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ko 각주 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mi kīwae (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · cy troednodyn (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · da fodnote (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mk фуснота (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ko 부차적인 존재 (event of lesser importance) · es nota a pie de página (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · pa ਪਗ ਟਿੱਪਣੀ (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · et allmärkus (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · cmn 註腳 /注脚 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · gv fo-screeuyn (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · tr dipnot (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mi kupu āpiti (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · pl przypis (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ga fonóta (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · sv fotnot (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mi kupu tāpiri (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · hu lábjegyzet (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · tr haşiye (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · fr note de bas de page (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ru примеча́ние (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · tl talababa (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · hy ծանոթագրություն (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · eo piednoto (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · hu mellékes megjegyzés (event of lesser importance) · nn fotnote (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · fi alaviite (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · nl voetnoot (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · cmn 註腳 /注脚 (event of lesser importance) · cmn 腳註 /脚注 or 腳注 /脚注 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · gu પાદટીપ (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · hu lábjegyzet (event of lesser importance) · gv fo-note (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ja 脚注 (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · it nota a piè di pagina (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · nb fotnote (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · mk подножна белешка (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · fi alaviite (event of lesser importance) · el υποσημείωση (event of lesser importance) · cs poznámka pod čarou (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · id catatan kaki (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · de Fußnote (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · pt nota de rodapé (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · el υποσημείωση (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · es nota (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · de Fußnote (event of lesser importance) · ms nota kaki (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · fr note en bas de page (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · ru сно́ска (comment at the bottom of a printed page) · pl przypis (event of lesser importance) · gd eàrr-nota (comment at the bottom of a printed page)