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noun
- 1. a path or track for pedestrians. British
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a passage or path intended for people to walk along: There were narrow streets with no footways. Fewer examples. Very low traffic speeds were needed as there was no kerb and no separate footway. Across the cobbled footway is the Red Lion pub. Separate footways and cyclepaths occupy the central open space.
: a narrow way or path for pedestrians. Examples of footway in a Sentence.
noun. 1. a way or path for people going on foot. 2. Also called: footpath Brit. a sidewalk. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Word origin. [ 1425–75; late ME fotewey. See foot, way 1] This word is first recorded in the period 1425–75.
Footway definition: a way or path for people going on foot.. See examples of FOOTWAY used in a sentence.
Definition of footway noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define footway. footway synonyms, footway pronunciation, footway translation, English dictionary definition of footway. n. A walk or path for pedestrians. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
Footway definition: A walk or path for pedestrians.
a passage or path intended for people to walk along: There were narrow streets with no footways. Fewer examples. Very low traffic speeds were needed as there was no curb and no separate footway. Across the cobbled footway is the Red Lion pub. Separate footways and cyclepaths occupy the central open space.
The earliest known use of the noun footway is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for footway is from before 1450, in Dives and Pauper . footway is formed within English, by compounding.
a way or path for people going on foot. British Terms Also called footpath. a sidewalk. late Middle English fotewey. See foot, way 1425–75. 'footway' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): footpath - street. Forum discussions with the word (s) "footway" in the title: footway... Well-flagged footway.
