square foot

1. 1.

   a unit of area equal to one foot by one foot square

   Synonymssq ft

   Broaderarea unit

Questions about square foot

What does square foot mean?

square foot means "a unit of area equal to one foot by one foot square".

What is another word for square foot?

Close synonyms include sq ft. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is square foot a common word?

square foot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.