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English

Alternative forms

• f.n. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From foot +? note.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?t?n??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?t?no?t/

Noun

footnote (plural footnotes)

1. 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.

   Coordinate terms: headnote, endnote, hatnote, marginal note

2. (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
   • 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:

     In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.

3. A qualification to the import of something.

Translations

Verb

footnote (third-person singular simple present footnotes, present participle footnoting, simple past and past participle footnoted)

1. To add footnotes to a text.

   Synonym: annotate

See also

• marginalia
• reference mark

Further reading

• footnote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From modern Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek ???? (bíos, “life”) + ????? (gráph?, “write”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ba??????fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ba???????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

biography (countable and uncountable, plural biographies)

1. A person's life story, especially one published.

2. The art of writing this kind of story.

Derived terms

• autobiography
• heterobiography
• psychobiography

Related terms

• biographer
• biographical
• biographism
• hagiography
• pathography

Translations

Verb

biography (third-person singular simple present biographies, present participle biographying, simple past and past participle biographied)

1. (transitive) To write a biography of.

Anagrams

• ribophagy