foot

CEFRA1

/fʊt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The part of the body at the end of the leg.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.

Examples

  • The church is at the foot of the hill.

  • You see a white building at the foot of the hill.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Travel by walking.

  2. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.

  3. The base or bottom of anything.

More examples

In context

  • Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.

  • We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.

  • A spider has eight feet.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous. Cognates *Scots fit (“foot”) *Yola voote (“foot”) *North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”) *Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”) *West Frisian foet (“foot”) *Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”) *Dutch voet (“foot”) *Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”) *German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”) *German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”) *Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”) *Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”) *Mòcheno vuas (“foot”) *Vilamovian füs (“foot”) *Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”) *Danish fod (“foot”) *Faroese and Icelandic fótur (“foot”)...