Feet Meaning
/ˈfiːt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounplural of foot
nounFact; performance; feat.
Sentence Examples
On your feet, children!
You are old enough to stand on your own feet.
She likes to walk around in bare feet.
CEFR Practice Quiz
His aching ____ made it difficult to walk after the long hike.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He walked for miles, and now his ____ are incredibly sore and covered in painful blisters.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls."
— 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC:
"Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house."
— 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
His aching ____ made it difficult to walk after the long hike.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He walked for miles, and now his ____ are incredibly sore and covered in painful blisters.