Definitions:

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

Synonyms:

• step