feature

Verb

1. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
2. (transitive) To star, to contain.
3. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
4. (dated, transitive) To have features resembling.
5. (Pennsylvania, Western) To think about, understand, or imagine.

Noun

1. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
2. An important or main item.
3. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
5. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
6. A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
7. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
8. Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
9. Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
10. An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
11. The act of being featured in a piece of music.
12. The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: feture

In summary

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

Synonyms

characteristic

property

trait

quality

attribute

appearance

peculiarity

lineament

aspect

character

shape

element

look

countenance

streak

report

line

point

feature article

specificity

factor

component

special edition

feature of speech

stroke

star

⭐

face

show

distinctive feature

highlight

form

part

function

detail

boast

feature film

have

sport

demonstrate

bidding

convenience

contour

bid

context

constituent

belong

fashion

faculty

column

beetle

🪲

Translations

Merkmal

Eigenschaft

caratteristica

caractéristique

trait

característica

eigenschap

cecha

qualité

özellik

propriété

qualidade

Besonderheit

particularité

rasgo

Sentences

In recent years , Jones has ventured into feature films .

The surface of this feature has low ridges and patches of level terrain .