Feet Meaning and Definition

Word: Feet

How to pronounce: fiːt

How to pronounce:

Noun

Definitions:

1. The lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person stands or walks.

Example sentences: "The Antipodes were the body's extremities, its feet or its finger nails."

2. A projecting part on which a piece of furniture or each of its legs stands.

Example sentences: "The table's feet, he added, are larger but similar to those on the museum's Cadwalader screen."

3. The lower or lowest part of something; the base or bottom.

Example sentences: "The foot of the stairs"

4. A unit of linear measure equal to 12 inches (30.48 cm)

Example sentences: "Shallow water no more than a foot deep"

5. A group of syllables constituting a metrical unit. In English poetry it consists of stressed and unstressed syllables, while in ancient classical poetry it consists of long and short syllables.

Example sentences: "A trochee is a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short."

Verb

Definitions:

1. Cover a distance, especially a long one, on foot.

Synonyms:

bottom

gait

Synonyms:

paw

leg

toe

presser

ft

pad

hooves

bottom

foundation

base

basement

footstep

pes

tread

step

walk

foot it

pay

pedal

infantry

stand

spring

Antonyms:

top

upper

Derivations:

footboard

footwear

footfall

footwork

footway

footage

foothold

footed

footless

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Feet in Other Languages...

Spanish: Pie

German: Feet

French: Pied

Italian: Piede

Turkish: Ayaklar