Definition of feet

"feet" in the noun sense

1. foot, human foot, pes

the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint

"his bare feet projected from his trousers"

"armored from head to foot"

2. foot, ft

a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard

"he is six feet tall"

3. foot

the lower part of anything

"curled up on the foot of the bed"

"the foot of the page"

"the foot of the list"

"the foot of the mountain"

4. animal foot, foot

the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings

5. foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure

lowest support of a structure

"it was built on a base of solid rock"

"he stood at the foot of the tower"

6. foot, invertebrate foot

any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

7. foot

travel by walking

"he followed on foot"

"the swiftest of foot"

8. foot

a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger

9. infantry, foot

an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

"there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"

10. metrical foot, foot, metrical unit

prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

11. foot

a support resembling a pedal extremity

"one foot of the chair was on the carpet"

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Quotations for feet

Nay, her foot speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

The head and feet keep warm,
The rest will take no harm. [ Proverb ]

Two hands upon the breast.
And labor's done;
Two pale feet cross'd in rest.
The race is won. [ D. M. Mulock ]

At my feet the city slumbered. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Plant a white rose at my feet,
Or a lily fair and sweet,
With the humble mignonette
And the blue-eyed violet. [ Julia C. R. Dorr, Earth to Earth ]

Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet! [ Longfellow ]

All feet tread not in one shoe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time; [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,A Psalm Of Life ]

To brisk notes in cadence beating
Glance their many-twinkling feet. [ Gray ]

Heaven is at the feet of mothers. [ Roebuck ]

Feet that run on willing errands! [ Longfellow ]

Rumor has winged feet like Mercury. [ Beecher ]

A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet. [ Monckton Milnes ]

A cool mouth and warm feet live long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Six feet of earth make all men equal. [ Proverb ]

A witless heed (head) mak's weary feet. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again. [ Robert Herrick ]

Dry feet, warm head, bring safe to bed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As if the wind, not she, did walk,
Nor pressed a flower, nor bowed a stalk. [ Ben Jonson ]

O happy earth.
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! [ Spenser ]

God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. [ William Shakespeare ]

The harebells nod as she passes by,
The violet lifts its tender eye.
The ferns bend her steps to greet.
And the mosses creep to her dancing feet; [ Julia C. R. Dorr, Over The Wall ]

Feet like sunny gems on our English green. [ Tennyson ]

The flower she touched on dipped and rose. [ Tennyson ]

Steps with a tender foot, light as on air.
The lovely, lordly creature floated on. [ Tennyson ]

So gentle, yet so brisk, so wondrous sweet.
So fit to prattle at a lady's feet. [ Churchill ]

A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Where the will is ready the feet are light. [ Proverb ]

The black ox never yet trod upon your feet. [ Proverb ]

When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

We rise by things that are 'neath our feet,
By what we have mastered of good and gain,
By the pride deposed, and passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen. [ William Shakespeare ]

To steal the hog and give the feet for alms. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Oh, love forever lost,
And with it faith gone out! what is't remains
But duty, though the path be rough and trod
By bruised and bleeding feet? [ Lewis Morris ]

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest. [ William Watson ]

These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]

So lightly walks, she not one mark imprints,
Nor brushes off the dews, nor soils the tints. [ Churchill ]

I have found a good berth (shoes for my feet). [ French Proverb ]

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost.
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,
Star-eyed Intelligence. [ Mary Clemmer ]

He that can be patient has his foe at his feet. [ Dutch Proverb ]

The rain-drops' showery dance and rhythmic beat,
With tinkling of innumerable feet. [ Abraham Coles ]

The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. [ William Shakespeare ]

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet.
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

He steals a hog, and gives away the feet in alms. [ Proverb ]

And where we love is home.
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts. [ Holmes ]

Practice is to theory what the feet are to the head. [ E. de Girardin ]

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet. [ Proverb ]

To seek in a sheep five feet when there are but four. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Some men are like cats, they always fall on their feet. [ Anthony Collins ]

To steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's sake. [ Spanish Proverb ]

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands. [ Chamfort ]

God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands. [ Proverb ]

So light a foot will never wear out the everlasting flint. [ William Shakespeare ]

Birds are entangled by their feet, and men by their tongues. [ Proverb ]

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. [ Joseph Joubert ]

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [ Cicero ]

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. [ Lowell ]

Commonly they use their feet for defence whose tongue is their weapon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

I pray God that I may never find my will again.
Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet. [ Rutherford ]

A woman who throws herself at a man's head will soon find her place at his feet. [ Louis Desnoyers ]

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings! [ Bible ]

The eyes, the ears, the tongue, the hands, the feet, they all fast in their way. [ Proverb ]

Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the feet warm, and a fig for the doctors. [ Proverb ]

Many persons carry about their character in their hands, not a few under their feet. [ Murillo ]

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. [ Patrick Henry ]

This is the great fault in wine; it first trips up the feet, it is a cunning wrestler. [ Plautus ]

Under whose feet (subjected to His grace). Sit nature, fortune, motion, time, and place. [ Tasso ]

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet. [ Dr. Watts ]

Her feet beneath her petticoat like little mice stole in and out, as if they feared the light. [ Suckling ]

Thoughts perhaps, which, like fieldmice of the soul, leap under the feet and stick like adders. [ Richter ]

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes. They were easiest for his feet. [ John Selden ]

Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, and he that cares for most shall find no more. [ Bishop Hall ]

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever upon their feet. [ Colton ]

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. [ James A. Garfield ]

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty. [ Froude ]

The coming spring would first appear, and all this place with roses strew, if busy feet would let them grow. [ Waller ]

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. [ Swift ]

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than their head, and think to play the fool with reason. [ Terence ]

Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface! [ Victor Hugo ]

As a shoe, when too large, is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet; so is it with him whose fortune does not suit him. [ Horace ]

The primal duties shine aloft like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. [ Wordsworth ]

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all. [ Fenelon ]

To wither away, be disleaved, be trodden to dust even by the rude feet of Fate, that, friend, is the lot on earth of everything that is beautiful and sweet. [ Heine ]

And the prettiest foot; Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats, Ah! Mr. Trapland? [ Congreve ]

Guns, swords, batteries, armies and ships of war are set in motion by man for the subjugation of an enemy. Women bring conquerors to their feet with the magic of their eyes. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. [ Landor ]

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. [ Saadi ]

Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a very beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Every man, within that inconsiderable figure of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity. [ Carlyle ]

Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]

This is he that kiss'd away his hand in courtesy; This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice. That when he plays at tables, chides the dice in honorable terms; nay, he can sing a mean most meanly; and in ushering, mend him who can; the ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. [ William Shakespeare ]

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. Little old New York's good enough for us - that's what they sing. [ O. Henry, A Tempered Wind ]

Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid. [ Willmott ]

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of feet

2 letter words in feet (1 word)

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feet + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence feet

Words that start with feet (2 words)

Words with feet in them (3 words)

Word Growth involving feet

Shorter words in feet

fee

Longer words containing feet

bumblefeet

clawfeet

clubfeet

coffeetime coffeetimes

crakefeet

crowfeet

crowsfeet

feetfirst

flatfeet

forefeet

hindfeet

hotfeet

splayfeet

tenderfeet

webfeet