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Added 9 October 2026

footage

/ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about footage at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Film that has been shot.
they had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes
A rate of charging by the linear foot of work done.

Origin

From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips. Compare typologically French métrage.

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