footnote
/ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/
noun
- A note placed at the bottom of a page in a book or document that gives extra information or cites a source.
- She read the footnote to find the full title of the book mentioned in the text.
- The professor asked students to include footnotes for all their sources in the research paper.
- A footnote at the bottom of the page explained the historical context of the event.
- An unimportant or minor event, person, or detail, especially in history.
- That forgotten inventor is now only a footnote in the story of aviation.
- The small skirmish was just a footnote in the larger war.
- His brief career in politics became a mere footnote in the party's history.
Synonyms
verb
- To add a footnote or footnotes to a piece of writing.
- The historian footnoted the document to show where the information came from.
- The editor asked the author to footnote all the statistics in the report.
- She carefully footnoted every quotation in her essay.