Synonyms for footstep
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : foo t-step |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfʊtˌstɛp |
Définition of footstep
Origin :- early 13c., "footprint," from foot (n.) + step (n.). Meaning "a tread or fall of the foot" is first attested 1530s. Figurative expression to follow in (someone's) footsteps is from 1540s.
- noun footfall
- Here is something like the footstep of one who has worn a shoe; can it be that of our friend?
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- "I heard a footstep in the hall, and it was my duty to see who was passing," he said.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- He had recognised the footstep while it was yet seventy mtres away.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
- But no footstep ever passed the floor immediately below: except his own.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- No sound of footstep was stirring; no sign of human figure in sight.
- Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
- And yet she knew that she was listening—listening in dread—for a footstep in the house.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- The footstep, real or imagined, broke our conversation at that point, and we did not resume it.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- Yes, it was a footstep light and rapid, coming along the gravel-walk.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 » by Various
- Towards evening, he heard a footstep approaching, and sprang up.
- Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
- William ceased to growl, for far down the road he had heard a footstep that he knew.
- Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
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- fancy footwork
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- flat-footed
- flatfoot
- fleet of foot
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- foot long
- foot the bill
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- footloose and fancy-free
- footman
- footnote
- footprint
- footslog
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- footstone
- footwear
- go on foot
- harefooted
- having fancy footwork
- hot foot
- hotfoot
- lead-footed
- leadfoot
- light-footed
- lose footing
- nimble-footed
- on foot
- one foot in grave
- one foot in the grave
- pussyfoot
- put foot down
- put foot in
- put one's foot down
- putting foot in mouth
- rabbit foot
- rabbit's foot
- set foot in
- shoot oneself in foot
- slewfoot
- tenderfoot
- tenderfooted
- the footlights
- travel on foot
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