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footprint

/ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/noun2 syllables

Footprint means: a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface.

Synonyms for footprint3

noun, as in a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface

footmark, step

also used for footprint

ichnogram

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What does footprint mean?3

noun

1

a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface“the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window”

2

a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important“the footprints of an earlier civilization”

3

the area taken up by some object“the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Footprint in a sentence

  • In terms of reducing the carbon footprint, food miles matter more for vegans.mccarras
  • The bigger the tiger, the larger the footprints.sithu015
  • Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!sikmir
  • We walked around outside of the house, looking for footprints.CK
  • My new house has a smaller footprint than my old one.Lumi
  • We found one large footprint and a couple of different size smaller footprints.CK
  • This company is using new technologies to reduce its environmental footprint.Hybrid
  • Paul noticed the large footprint of a strange creature.Amastan

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of footprint

as a noun

plural
footprints