noun
foot
fuut
noun
1
The body part at the end of the leg that a person or animal stands and walks on.
"She stubbed her foot on the coffee table."
"He tapped his foot impatiently while waiting."
2
A unit of length equal to twelve inches.
"The ceiling is about ten feet high."
3
The lowest or bottom part of something.
"They set up camp at the foot of the mountain."
verb
1
To pay a bill, especially informally (as in "foot the bill").
"His parents ended up footing the bill for the whole trip."
How to Use Foot
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe body part you stand on, a 12-inch unit of length, the bottom of something, or (as a verb) to pay a bill.
Common mistake
The plural is "feet," not "foots" — except in the unit-of-length sense used adjectivally, e.g. "a six-foot fence."
Common pairings
foot the bill
foot of the mountain
on foot
Word Forms
footed past tense, foots singular
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Etymology
From Old English fot, from a very old Indo-European root for "foot" shared across most European languages.