Footing Definition

fo͝otĭng
noun
A secure placing of the feet.
To lose one's footing.
Webster's New World
A moving on the feet; walking, dancing, etc.
Webster's New World
The condition of a surface with regard to its suitability, for walking, running, etc.
Poor footing following the rain.
Webster's New World
A secure place to put the feet; foothold.
Webster's New World
The supporting base or groundwork of a structure, as for a monument or wall.
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verb

Present participle of foot.

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Other Word Forms of Footing

Noun

Singular:
footing
Plural:
footings

Origin of Footing

  • foot +‎ -ing

    From Wiktionary

Footing Sentence Examples

  • I may be footing the bill, but you're working for Mom, not me.

  • The first of these nations to make good its footing in the region was France.

  • She clung to him as she scrambled to regain her footing.

  • It was this enterprise which brought him into antagonism with Rome, since Smyrna and Lampsacus appealed to the republic of the west, and the tension became greater after Antiochus had in 196 established a footing in Thrace.

  • During the latter period of his term of office he was on a very unsatisfactory footing with the young king George III., who gradually came to feel a kind of horror of the interminable persistency of his conversation, and whom he endeavoured to make use of as the mere puppet of the ministry.

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Words Starting With

FFOFOO

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GNGING

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Words Starting With F and Ending With G

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