ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

human foot - the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"

foot, pes

human, human being, man - any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

calcaneus, heelbone, os tarsi fibulare - the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel

arcuate artery, arteria arcuata - curved artery in the foot

arteria digitalis, digital arteries - arteries in the hand and foot that supply the fingers and toes

arteria metatarsea, metatarsal artery - dorsal and plantar arteries to the metatarsal region of the foot

intercapitular vein, vena intercapitalis - veins connecting the dorsal and palmar veins of the hand or the dorsal and plantar veins of the foot

metatarsal vein, vena metatarsus - dorsal and plantar branches of veins serving the metatarsal region of the foot

leg - a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle

pedal extremity, vertebrate foot - the extremity of the limb in vertebrates

pes planus, splayfoot, flatfoot - a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out

instep - the arch of the foot

sole - the underside of the foot

toe - one of the digits of the foot

big toe, great toe, hallux - the first largest innermost toe

little toe - the fifth smallest outermost toe

heel - the back part of the human foot

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

Doubtless upon that long search mine was the first human foot to touch the soil in many places--mine the first human eye to rest upon the gorgeous wonders of the landscape.

View in context

But the time will come; and when, in their changed ashes, the growth of centuries unborn has struck its roots, the restless men of distant ages will repair to these again unpeopled solitudes; and their fellows, in cities far away, that slumber now, perhaps, beneath the rolling sea, will read in language strange to any ears in being now, but very old to them, of primeval forests where the axe was never heard, and where the jungled ground was never trodden by a human foot.

View in context

"A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel."

View in context

Meanwhile, by a cleft between two walls of rock, following a path worn by a torrent, and which, in all human probability, human foot had never before trod, Dantes approached the spot where he supposed the grottos must have existed.

View in context

Between him and destination lay a trackless wilderness of untouched primeval savagery where, doubtless in many spots, his would be the first human foot to touch the virgin turf.

View in context

I had been thinking of it, sweeping over those mountain wastes of snow in Switzerland, then inaccessible to any human foot; and had been speculating which was the lonelier, those solitary regions, or a deserted ocean.

View in context

Her boots and stockings followed the skirt, for the bare sole of the human foot does not slip upon dry or even wet bark as does the hard leather of a boot.

View in context

The journey was up the bed of the small stream which emptied into the harbor, so that although fifteen men had passed back and forth through the jungle from the beach to the camp every day for two weeks, there was no sign that human foot had ever crossed the narrow strip of sand that lay between the dense foliage and the harbor.

View in context

The impression of the whole scene was that of a spot where no human foot had left its print for many preceding days,--probably not since Phoebe's departure,--for she saw a side-comb of her own under the table of the arbor, where it must have fallen on the last afternoon when she and Clifford sat there.

View in context

At the end of three months he came to the entrance of a huge forest, which looked as if it had never been trodden by human foot before, and which seemed to stretch out indefinitely.

View in context

Thick dust covered the floor within the doorway, indicating that a great period of time had elapsed since human foot had trod it--a secret way, doubtless, unknown to living Manatorians.

View in context

And since that momentous day in 1969, when Neil Armstrong first set a human foot on the Moon, there have been a number of other truly extraordinary developments in the story of our species.

Moon landing was 'giant leap' towards becoming an interplanetary species -- leader comment