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Footfall

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See footstep.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The sound made by a footstep.

n. Foot (pedestrian) traffic.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A footstep; the tread of the foot.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the sound of a step of someone walking

Word Usage

"a painful and solitary business through "that solitary land of the individual experience, in which no fellow footfall is ever heard", as it says in the first epigraph in The Aunt's"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sound

Hyponym

tramp

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

footstep

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

footstep tread hooves thud knock