footstep

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A step with the foot.
2. n. The sound of a foot stepping. Also called footfall.
3. n. The distance covered by a step: a footstep away.
4. n. See footprint.
5. n. A step on which to go up or down.
6. idiom. follow in (someone's) footsteps To carry on the behavior, work, or tradition of.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A tread of the foot; a footfall; a stepping: as, I hear his footstep on the stair.
2. n. The mark or impression of a foot; a footprint; a track.
3. n. Hence plural The steps taken or methods pursued in any series of actions; a course of proceedings or measures, or the track or path marked out by such a course: as, the conqueror's footsteps were everywhere marked by blood; to follow the footsteps or in the footsteps of one's predecessor.
4. n. An evidence or token of anything done; a manifest mark or indication.
5. n. In mech.: The pillow in which the foot of an upright or vertical shaft works.
6. n. An inclined plane under a hand printing-press.

Wiktionary

1. n. The mark or impression left by a foot; a track.
2. n. By extension, the indications or waypoints of a course or direction taken.
3. n. The sound made by walking, running etc.
4. n. A step, as in a stair.
5. n. The distance between one foot and the next when walking; a pace.
6. n. The act of taking a step.
7. n. obsolete An inclined plane under a hand printing press.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark.
2. n. An inclined plane under a hand printing press.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the distance covered by a step
2. n. the act of taking a step in walking
3. n. the sound of a step of someone walking