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Webster 1913 Edition


Feet

Feet

,
Noun.
pl.
See
Foot
.

Feet

,
Noun.
[See
Feat
,
Noun.
]
Fact; performance.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Feet

FEET

,
Noun.
plu of foot. [See Foot.]

Definition 2024


feet

feet

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fēt, IPA(key): /fiːt/
  • Rhymes: -iːt
  • Homophone: feat

Noun

feet pl (plural only)

  1. plural form of foot.
    • 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter II:
      There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess:
      Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

Etymology 2

Noun

feet

  1. (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat.

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: 2 · open · therefore · #327: feet · lay · along · four

Anagrams


Luxembourgish

Verb

feet

  1. inflection of feeën:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person plural present indicative
    3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian

Noun

feet n

  1. singular definite of fe