FOOTPRINT
Dictionary entry overview: What does footprint mean?
• FOOTPRINT (noun)
The noun FOOTPRINT has 3 senses:
1. a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
2. a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
3. the area taken up by some object
Familiarity information: FOOTPRINT used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FOOTPRINT (noun)
Meaning:
A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
footmark; footprint; step
Context example:
the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window
Hypernyms ("footprint" is a kind of...):
mark; print (a visible indication made on a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "footprint"):
footprint evidence (evidence in the form of footprints)
Meaning:
A trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
the footprints of an earlier civilization
Hypernyms ("footprint" is a kind of...):
shadow; tincture; trace; vestige (an indication that something has been present)
Meaning:
The area taken up by some object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches
Hypernyms ("footprint" is a kind of...):
area; expanse; surface area (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary)
