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Noun: footnote  'fût,nowt
  1. A printed note placed below the text on a printed page
    - footer
     
  2. A minor detail or additional minor comment
Verb: footnote  'fût,nowt
  1. Add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
    "The scholar footnoted the early edition of a famous novel";
    - annotate

Derived forms: footnoting, footnotes, footnoted

Type of: annotation, compose, indite [archaic], notation, note, pen, write

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