footages

foot·age

F f

Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [foo t-ij]
- /ˈfʊt ɪdʒ/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [foo t-ij]
- /ˈfʊt ɪdʒ/

Definitions of footages word

noun footages length or extent in feet: the footage of lumber. 1
noun footages Mining. payment by the running foot of work done. the amount so paid. 1
noun footages a motion-picture scene or scenes: newsreel footage; jungle footage. 1
noun footages plural of footage. 0

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Origin of footages

First appearance:

before 1890

One of the 20% newest English words

First recorded in 1890-95; foot + -age

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Parts of speech for Footages

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Footages

footages popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for footages

noun footages

flick — a motion picture.
picture — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
cinema — A cinema is a place where people go to watch films for entertainment.
show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.

All 12 Synonyms of footages