1. A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
   "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window";
   - footmark, step, footstep
    
2. A trace suggesting that something was once present, felt or otherwise important
   "the footprints of an earlier civilization"
    
3. The area taken up by some object
   "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches"

Derived forms: footprints

Type of: area, expanse, mark, print, shadow, surface area, tincture, trace, vestige

Encyclopedia: Footprint