Footnote
['fʊtnəʊt] or ['fʊt'not]
Definition
(noun.) a printed note placed below the text on a printed page.
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Definition
(n.) A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.
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Examples
- Hermon (see footnote to Ch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When we have found a resemblance [Footnote 2. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- FOOTNOTES: [15] Dr. Stuber was born in Philadelphia, of German parents. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Gibbon's account of the manners and morals of John XII takes refuge at last beneath a veil of Latin footnotes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- FOOTNOTES: [1] Dr. Shipley. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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