footstep

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: foot=step

CIDE DICTIONARY

footstep, n. 

•  The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.  [1913 Webster]

  "How on the faltering footsteps of decay
  Youth presses."  [1913 Webster]
•  An inclined plane under a hand printing press.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

footstep, n.
1 a step taken in walking.
2 the sound of this.

Idiom

follow (or tread) in a person's footsteps do as another person did before.

THESAURUS

footstep

boss, bump, clop, colophon, concavity, convexity, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, dint, doorstep, embossment, example, excrescence, fingerprint, footfall, footmark, footprint, footprints, footrest, footsteps, fossil footprint, hippety-hop, hoofbeat, hop, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, jump, lump, pace, pad, paw print, pawmark, pimple, print, pug, pugmark, rest, riser, round, rundle, rung, scale, seal, sigil, signet, skip, spoke, spoor, stair, stamp, stave, step, step stool, stepping-stone, stride, string, stud, thumbmark, thumbprint, trace, track, tract, tradition, trail, tread, vestige, way of life

ROGET THESAURUS

footstep

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.