foot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   travel by walking

   They followed on foot.

2. 2
   noun

   a support resembling a pedal extremity

   one foot of the chair was on the carpet

3. 3
   noun

   an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

   there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot

4. 4
   noun

   the lower part of anything

   curled up on the foot of the bed

5. 5
   noun

   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.

   A spider has eight feet.

6. 6
   noun

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

   Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.

7. 7
   noun

   Travel by walking.

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

8. 8
   noun

   The base or bottom of anything.

   I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.

Etymology

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…