footnote

Plural: footnotes

Noun

• a printed note placed below the text on a printed page
• 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.
• An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
• A qualification to the import of something.

Verb

Verb Forms: footnoted, footnoting, footnotes

• To add explanatory notes at the bottom of a page.
• add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
• To add footnotes to a text.

Examples

• a mere footnote in history
• consult the footnotes for more details
• Her detailed Scrabble post-game analysis would often FOOTNOTE her key strategic decisions.

Synonyms

annotate, footer, asterisk

Related Words

marginalia, reference mark

Anagrams of footnote