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- Dictionaryafoot/əˈfʊt/
adjective
- 1. in preparation or progress; happening or beginning to happen: "plans are afoot for a festival"
- 2. on foot: North American "they were forced to go afoot"
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happening or being planned or prepared: There are plans afoot to launch a new radio station. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Occurring and happening. asynchronously. attendant. be at work idiom. become. ensuing. eventuate. fall into place idiom. follow on. go hand in hand with something idiom. go off. gone. pass. resynchronize.
1. : on foot. 2. : in the process of development : underway. a plan is afoot to build a new school. Synonyms. under way. under weigh. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of afoot in a Sentence.
If you say that a plan or scheme is afoot, it is already happening or being planned, but you do not know much about it.
happening, or being planned or prepared: Big changes are afoot at Lake Utah. (Definition of afoot from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of afoot. afoot. What used to provide unequivocal proof that trolling was afoot no longer (necessarily) denotes anything, other than a basic familiarity with memes.
Something that's afoot is already happening, underway, or being prepared. You might reassure your fellow French club members that plans are afoot for a fund raiser to support your upcoming trip to Québec.
adjective. in circulation or operation; astir. mischief was afoot. on or by foot. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of afoot 1. First recorded in 1175–1225, afoot is from Middle English a fote, on fote. See a- 1, foot. Discover More. Example Sentences.
Define afoot. afoot synonyms, afoot pronunciation, afoot translation, English dictionary definition of afoot. adv. & adj. 1. On foot; walking. 2. In the process of being carried out; astir: plans afoot to resign. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English...
Definition of afoot adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A complete guide to the word "AFOOT": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
adjective [ never before noun ] uk/əˈfʊt/us. being planned, or happening now: There are plans afoot to launch a new radio station. Want to learn more? Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge. Learn the words you need to communicate with confidence.
