footway
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English fotwei, equivalent to foot + way. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foutwai, German Fußweg.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
footway (plural footways)
- A passage reserved only for pedestrians.
- 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “Crossrail Update: Whitechapel barrels on”, in Modern Railways, page 92:
- On the right, as you enter from Whitechapel Road, is the public footway to Durward Street that will provide a new route across the railway during the day.
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References edit
- “footway”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “footway”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.