feet
Noun
- The plural of 'foot'; a unit of length.
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- "his bare feet projected from his trousers"
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- "he is six feet tall"
- the lower part of anything
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- lowest support of a structure
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- travel by walking
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- plural of foot
- Fact; performance; feat.
Examples
- With all those vowels, his rack was making his opponents drag their feet in frustration.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English feet, fet, from Old English fēt, from Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pódes, nominative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), West Frisian fiet (“feet”), German Füße (“feet”), Danish fødder (“feet”), Swedish fötter (“feet”), Faroese føtur (“feet”), Icelandic fætur (“feet”).
Synonyms
animal foot, base, foot, foundation, ft, fundament, groundwork, human foot, infantry, invertebrate foot, metrical foot, metrical unit, pes, substructure, understructure
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
feet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfeet: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
feet: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary