Definition of "feet" []

• Plural of foot. (noun)

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• "_The Alexander column, standing before the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, is a monolith eighty feet high; with the pedestal measuring one hundred and fifty feet_."
• "The calculation from the Valdez base should, however, be taken into consideration in making this barometric determination, and the mean of the two results, twenty thousand six hundred and ninety-six feet, or, roundly, _twenty thousand seven hundred feet_, is offered as the contribution of this expedition toward determining the true altitude of the mountain."
• "If Mr. Lincoln was six feet four inches high usually, _at Bloomington he was seven feet_, and inspired at that."