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Meaning of footnote in English

footnote
noun
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/ˈfʊt.nəʊt/ us
/ˈfʊt.noʊt/
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[ C ]
a note printed at the bottom of a page that gives extra information about something that has been written on that page
[ C usually singular ]
an event, subject, or detail that is not important:
footnote in history His tumultuous triumph five years ago now seems like little more than a footnote in history.
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(Definition of footnote from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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footnote
noun [ C ]
us
/ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/
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a note at the bottom of a page that gives extra information about something in the text on that page
(Definition of footnote from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of footnote

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Finally, using footnotes instead of endnotes would have enhanced readability.
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The footnotes to each chapter make explicit the relationship of the chapter to any previous publications.
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The book has many footnotes that refer the reader to secondary literature.
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The footnotes in the book bear witness to the very great amount of archival research that was necessary during the course of their work.
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We are left instead to hunt through text and footnotes for primary material and contemporary reviews.
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The many footnotes explain difficult terms and obscure references that would otherwise confuse or baffle the reader.
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The bibliographic information on the majority of primary texts is hidden away in footnotes, which makes locating it somewhat laborious.
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As with other volumes in this series, there are endnotes rather than footnotes.
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The robust footnotes and detailed index will make this volume easy to use as a reference work.
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The bibliography does not cite all publications mentioned in the footnotes.
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The footnotes act as a series of metatextual comments on the letter, addressed now to a new, public audience.
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Moreover, the tediously long quotes could have been considerably truncated, eliminated, or relegated to footnotes.
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All names followed by an asterisk in the footnotes are pseudonyms.
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The book suffered from some minor mistakes and lacked footnotes.
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Most significantly, it lacks a full bibliography, and references are given only in footnotes (which sometimes conflict with one another).
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Translations of footnote

in Chinese (Traditional)
註腳, 無足輕重的事件（或問題、細節）…
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脚注, 无足轻重的事件（或问题、细节）…
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nota a pie de página…
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nota de rodapé…
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脚注…
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dipnot…
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note en bas de page…
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nota a peu de pàgina…
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voetnoot…
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poznámka pod čarou…
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fodnote…
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catatan kaki…
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เชิงอรรถ…
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chú thích cuối trang…
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przypis…
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fotnot…
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nota kaki…
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die Fußnote…
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fotnote…
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주석…
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виноска…
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nota a piè pagina, nota a piè di pagina…
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