footnote

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

   consult the footnotes for more details

2. 2
   noun

   An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.

   a mere footnote in history

3. 3
   verb

   To add footnotes to a text.

   She does everything she does with a kind of terrifying thoroughness, footnoted and bibliographied, as it were, down to the smallest detail.

4. 4
   noun

   a printed note placed below the text on a printed page

5. 5
   verb

   add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments

6. 6
   noun

   A qualification to the import of something.

Etymology

From foot + note.