Feet

//fiːt// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of foot form-of, plural

    "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."

  2. 2
    Fact; performance; feat. obsolete

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backbeardbellybevelbodycap

Example

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"You are old enough to stand on your own feet."

Etymology

From Middle English feet, fet, from Old English fēt, from Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pódes, nominative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), West Frisian fiet (“feet”), German Füße (“feet”), Danish fødder (“feet”), Swedish fötter (“feet”), Faroese føtur (“feet”), Icelandic fætur (“feet”).

Related phrases

a closed mouth gathers no feetat one's feetat the feet ofbeat feetburning feet syndromechicken feetcold feetcover one's feetcrow's feetcrow's-feetcut the ground from under someone's feetdead on one's feet

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