Associations to the word «Footnote»

Wiktionary

FOOTNOTE, 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
FOOTNOTE, noun. (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related
FOOTNOTE, verb. To add footnotes to a text; to annotate.

Dictionary definition

FOOTNOTE, noun. A printed note placed below the text on a printed page.
FOOTNOTE, verb. Add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats