barefoot

«barefoot» in Mova's school dictionary: not wearing any shoes or socks on your feet — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (barefoot); adverb (barefoot); also barefooted

meaning for a pupil

Barefoot means not wearing any shoes or socks on your feet. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children walk barefoot on the beach, on grass or at home. In safety lessons, going barefoot outside can mean cuts from glass, stings from bees in clover, burns from hot sand or pavement, and in some places hookworm or snake danger, so wear shoes in parks and playgrounds. In PE, gymnastics and yoga are often done barefoot. In history and stories, poor children often went barefoot.

examples

• We ran barefoot on the beach. tree →
• Don't walk barefoot where there might be broken glass. tree →
• She does gymnastics barefoot. tree →
• The sand was too hot to walk on barefoot. tree →
• In the story, the poor boy was barefoot in the snow. tree →
• I stepped on a bee when I was barefoot in the garden. tree →
• Many children go barefoot at home. tree →
• He walked barefoot across the cool grass. tree →
• "I'd rather walk barefoot than drive with him in a coach!" tree →

note

It is both an adjective (a barefoot boy) and an adverb (walk barefoot); no -ly. «Barefooted» also exists but «barefoot» is more common. Safety: in Australia and New Zealand, many children go barefoot, but hot surfaces and sharp things can hurt.

In the corpora

• Rubbing makes skin grow thicker into calluses, which protect it; barefoot runners grow thick soles that protect like shoes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «barefoot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.