footnote

Speech parts

1. footnote - Noun

2. footnote - Verb

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

note comment annotation annotate remark footer marginalia endnote explanatory note postscript n.b. citation definition bill notation
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Antonyms

enigma problem question difficulty disorder confusion
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Hypernyms

notation write note pen compose annotation

Phrases with the word

as a footnote

Examples

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. China Miéville

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. Danny DeVito

A memoir for me means a person's life story; if I was going to write my actual life story, I would condense this entire marriage into a footnote. Meena Kandasamy

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. George Santayana

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned. Mike Huckabee

Close letter words and terms

footmeal footmuff footnail footnoter footpace footpad