feet
- 1Plural of foot.
She measured the room and found it was twelve feet wide.
The dancers moved their feet in perfect time with the music.
Note
A plural made by changing the vowel rather than adding -s: Old English fēt goes back through Proto-Germanic *fōtiz to an Indo-European plural of *pṓds, "foot." The same kind of vowel change gives teeth and geese. As a measurement it stays plural after a number (several feet lower, twelve feet wide) but turns singular inside a compound before a noun: a twelve-foot room.
- 2A fact or deed; a performance or notable accomplishment.
Note
A separate word that only shares its spelling with the plural of foot. It belongs to older writing and is now out of use, so a modern reader meets it only on the page of an old text. Anyone writing today should choose feat. Used in this sense, feet would simply be read as the body part, and the meaning would be lost.
feet is a form of foot
foot, noun: The part of the leg below the ankle that a person or animal stands and walks on. Full entry
- Forms
- footfeet plural
- Spelling
- foot → feet: irregular plural (no -s)
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Origin
The plural of "foot," from Middle English feet (also fet), from Old English fēt, going back to Proto-Germanic *fōtiz and Proto-Indo-European *pódes, the plural of *pṓds ("foot"). It is related to German Füße, Danish fødder, and Swedish fötter.