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foot
What does foot mean?
foot (noun): the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use foot in a sentence?
- His bare feet projected from his trousers. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- Armored from head to foot. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce foot?
/fʊt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does foot come from?
From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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