FOOTPATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does footpath mean? 

• FOOTPATH (noun)
  The noun FOOTPATH has 1 sense:

1. a trodden path

  Familiarity information: FOOTPATH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOTPATH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A trodden path

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

footpath; pathway

Hypernyms ("footpath" is a kind of...):

path (a way especially designed for a particular use)

 Context examples 

A footpath led across to the lonely cottage.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s the village, said the driver, pointing to a cluster of roofs some distance to the left; but if you want to get to the house, you’ll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by the footpath over the fields.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The thought was in my head as I turned into my own street, and at that moment a cab passed me, and there she was, sitting by the side of Fairbairn, the two chatting and laughing, with never a thought for me as I stood watching them from the footpath.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This long meadow bordered a lane, which their footpath, at the end of it was to cross, and when the party had all reached the gate of exit, the carriage advancing in the same direction, which had been some time heard, was just coming up, and proved to be Admiral Croft's gig.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This would not do; she immediately stopped, under pretence of having some alteration to make in the lacing of her half-boot, and stooping down in complete occupation of the footpath, begged them to have the goodness to walk on, and she would follow in half a minute.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then he certainly took a footpath on one side or the other.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But your father is not going so far; he is only going to the Crown, quite on the other side of the street, and there are a great many houses; you might be very much at a loss, and it is a very dirty walk, unless you keep on the footpath; but my coachman can tell you where you had best cross the street.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anxious to separate herself from them as far as she could, she soon afterwards took possession of a narrow footpath, a little raised on one side of the lane, leaving them together in the main road.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the footpaths it still lay as white as when it fell.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)