Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun footnote

1 sense of footnote

Sense 1
footnote, footer -- (a printed note placed below the text on a printed page)
       => note, annotation, notation -- (a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb footnote

1 sense of footnote

Sense 1
annotate, footnote -- (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel")
       => write, compose, pen, indite -- (produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels")