noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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fo͝otʹĭj
/ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/
General-American:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -ʊtɪdʒ
CMU ARPABET:F UH1 T IH0 JH
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A measurement in feet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
film that has been shot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
they had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes
he edited the news footage
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: film, photographic film
4
noun
Meaning 4
a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rate, charge per unit
History
Etymology
From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips. Compare typologically French métrage.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Chinese Mandarin:
影片
(yǐngpiàn)
— amount of film that has been used
Chinese Mandarin:
錄像 /录像
(lùxiàng)
— amount of film that has been used
Chinese Mandarin:
鏡頭 /镜头
(jìngtóu)
— amount of film that has been used
Danish:
filmmateriale
— amount of film that has been used
Dutch:
filmmateriaal
— amount of film that has been used
Esperanto:
filmmaterialo
— amount of film that has been used
Estonian:
filmimaterjal
— amount of film that has been used
Finnish:
kuvamateriaali
— amount of film that has been used
Finnish:
filmiaineisto
— amount of film that has been used
Finnish:
filmausmateriaali
— amount of film that has been used
French:
pellicule enregistrée
— amount of film that has been used
French:
métrage cinématographique
— amount of film that has been used
French:
métrage
— amount of film that has been used
German:
Filmmaterial
— amount of film that has been used
German:
Filmmeter
— amount of film that has been used
German:
Bandmaterial
— amount of film that has been used
German:
Bildmaterial
— amount of film that has been used
Hungarian:
filmfelvétel
— amount of film that has been used
Hungarian:
felvétel
— amount of film that has been used
Hungarian:
filmrészlet
— amount of film that has been used
Hungarian:
bejátszás
— amount of film that has been used
Italian:
materiale filmato
— amount of film that has been used
Japanese:
映像
(eizō)
— amount of film that has been used
Māori:
kiriatatanga
— amount of film that has been used
Norwegian:
filmmateriale
— amount of film that has been used
Polish:
materiał filmowy
— amount of film that has been used
Portuguese:
material
— amount of film that has been used
Russian:
отсня́тый материа́л
(otsnjátyj materiál)
— amount of film that has been used
Russian:
фута́ж
(futáž)
— amount of film that has been used
Russian:
метра́ж
(metráž)
— amount of film that has been used
Serbo-Croatian:
filmski materijal
— amount of film that has been used
Serbo-Croatian:
snimka
— amount of film that has been used
Spanish:
metraje
— amount of film that has been used
Spanish:
material
— amount of film that has been used
Spanish:
imágenes
— amount of film that has been used
Swedish:
filmmaterial
— amount of film that has been used
Turkish:
metraj
— amount of film that has been used
Ukrainian:
відзнятий матеріал
— amount of film that has been used
Ukrainian:
відзняті кадри
(vidznjati kadry)
— amount of film that has been used
