Meanings
plural square feet
- A unit of area, regardless of its shape, equal to the area of a square whose sides are one foot long.
A room twelve feet by twelve feet, which can be called twelve feet square, has a total area of 144 square feet.
2 more examples
In 1973, we built a new factory in Tahsi in Taoyuan County, which occupied an area of 600,000 square feet.
2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110At No. 3 Staunton Street in the city’s SoHo district, the roughly 1,300 square-foot ground floor was once used as a parking space for a Ferrari.
2023 March 22, Christy Choi, “Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023, Art & Design
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA unit of area, regardless of its shape, equal to the area of a square whose sides are one foot long.
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Translations
Chinese Cantonese 平方呎, 呎
- 平方呎 (ping⁴ fong¹ cek³)unit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
- 呎 (cek³)unit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Chinese Mandarin 平方英尺, 平方呎
- 平方英尺 (píngfāng yīngchǐ)unit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
- 平方呎 (píngfāngchǐ)unit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Estonian ruutjalg
- ruutjalgunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Finnish neliöjalka
- neliöjalkaunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
French pied carré
- pied carréunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
German Quadratfuß
- Quadratfußunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Icelandic ferfet
- ferfetunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Italian piede al quadrato
- piede al quadratounit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Malay kaki persegi
- kaki persegiunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Polish stopa kwadratowa
- stopa kwadratowaunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Russian квадра́тный фут
- квадра́тный фут (kvadrátnyj fut)unit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Swedish kvadratfot
- kvadratfotunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Thai ตารางฟุต
- ตารางฟุตunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Ukrainian квадра́тний фут
- квадра́тний фут (kvadrátnyj fut)unit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Vietnamese bộ vuông, foot vuông
- bộ vuôngunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
- foot vuôngunit of area equal to that of a square of one foot each side
Cite this entry
square foot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/square%20foot
“square foot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/square%20foot. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “square foot,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/square%20foot.
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