footprint Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Foot"print` noun
Definitions
  1. The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator."

Webster 1913