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footnote

UK /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/US /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

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.
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An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
- If we are another footnote to Plato, Plato was himself already a footnote to still earlier footnotes, in an endless chain of footnotes to footnotes — 2012
A qualification to the import of something.

verb1

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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. — 1979

forms

footnoted · footnoting · footnotes

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