English dictionary
foot
nounPronunciation
fʊt
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- travel by walking
noun
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
noun
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
noun
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
noun
- lowest support of a structure
noun
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
noun
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
noun
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
noun
- the lower part of anything
noun
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
noun
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
verb
- add a column of numbers
verb
- walk
verb
- pay for something
Example sentences
he followed on foot
the swiftest of foot
one foot of the chair was on the carpet
it was built on a base of solid rock
he stood at the foot of the tower
his bare feet projected from his trousers
armored from head to foot
there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot
curled up on the foot of the bed
the foot of the page
the foot of the list
the foot of the mountain
he is six feet tall
let's hoof it to the disco
pick up the tab
pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages
foot the bill