square foot
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1.4
- noun
- /skwɛr fʊt/
- US
:
pie cuadrado
- The new apartment has an area of 1,200 square feet, providing plenty of space for a family.
- square-foot building
- square feet of space
- square feet of floor
But that said, I would say to you something like how much is your rent or your mortgage costing you per square foot to keep those things?
- But that said, I would say to you something like how much is your rent or your mortgage costing you per square foot to keep those things?
- Title packs give you at least one square foot of dedicated land on private estates in Edleston, Scotland, in an official certificate with a Crest.
- The range of rent per square foot in Los Angeles is probably much larger than the restricted range of rent in a British new town.
- Lennon Park has increased the number of square foot.
- I'm just saying at the airport, we were the highest pay renter for per square foot for five years.
Examples
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The greenhouse and plant department covered fifty thousand square feet under glass.
Academic text (2015) -
It's 5,000 square feet, three bedrooms, three baths.
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So you can think about this as the number of square feet that are built.
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We have one square foot of dedicated land on a private estate in Scotland.
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Almost two million square feet.
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By the time we close this campaign, hundreds of thousands of square feet of new campus space will be taking shape across the Charles.
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Now, this will include over a million square feet of commercial and residential space.
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If we disagree about how many square feet the room is, what can we do?
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The range of rent per square foot in Los Angeles is probably much larger than the restricted range of rent in a British new town.
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Together, they committed to upgrading more than 6 billion square feet of building space.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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A square area one foot by one foot
How Big
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1.9
- US
15
2.6
- US
10
1.0
- UK
3
1.8
- US
133
1.4
- US
22
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'square' (a geometric figure) with 'foot' (a unit of length) to denote a square whose sides are one foot, i.e. a unit of area. The 'square + unit' composition is a regular, productive pattern (e.g. square meter, square mile) and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the term.
Etymology
Square foot comes from the simple idea of a square whose sides are one foot long, a small square used as a standard 'unit' of 'area'. That's why square foot today means the amount of space in rooms, houses, or land.