feature
Verbfeatures, featuring, featured
Noun pluralfeatures
Formsfeatures, featuring, featured
Pluralfeatures
- 1To have or show someone or something as a main part, so people notice it.
Like a show putting its biggest star right at the center.
The movie features a famous actor in the lead role.
They feature local artists at the gallery every month.
- 2A part or quality of something that stands out or makes it special.
Like the first thing you notice about a person or place.
The big windows are the best feature of this old house.
Each room has its own special features.
UsageSay a feature of something: the best feature of the house.
Similarcharacteristic, trait, quality, attribute, hallmark
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- 3Something a computer program can do that helps the person using it.
Like a useful button on a machine that does a helpful job for you.
This app has a feature that saves your work automatically.
The phone's best features are easy to learn.
UsageSay an app has a feature that does something.
Similarfunction, capability, tool, option
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- 4
- 5Short for feature film. It means a full-length movie.
We caught the new feature at the movie theater last night.
The director's latest feature won several awards.
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- 6A long, important story in a newspaper, magazine, or show.
Like the big main story that fills several pages of a magazine.
The magazine ran a feature about street artists.
She writes features for the local paper.
UsageSay a feature on or about something: a feature about artists.
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- 7A guest appearance by a singer or musician on someone else's song.
Like a guest singer who joins a friend's song for one part.
The remix includes a feature from a well-known rapper.
Her new single has a feature by a famous jazz singer.
UsageSay a feature on a song, or a feature from a singer.
Similarcameo
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- 8A main or most important part of something.
Like the biggest ride at a fair that everyone comes to see.
The new roller coaster is the main feature of the park.
Live music was one of the best features of the festival.
UsageOften said as the main feature of something.
Similarhighlight, attraction, centerpiece
Less common meanings
- 9One of the parts of a person's face, like the eyes or nose.
Her smile is her best feature.
He has strong features, just like his father.
UsageOften plural: his features means his whole face.
- 10A single measurable piece of information that a computer model takes in to learn or predict.
Like one box on a form, such as your age or your height.
Each feature in the table describes one trait of the data.
The team picked which features mattered most for the model.
Similarvariable, predictor, property
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- 11To look very much like another person in face or build.
Like a son who has his father's exact nose and eyes.
My aunt always said I feature my grandpa.
More than his talents, Roger grudged him his looks, the brown eyes, golden hair, and oval face, which made people say how Johnny Weir featured his mother.
Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)Here, featured means looked like, so Johnny resembled his mother.Note
- 12The shape and build of a person's body.
all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature.
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie QueeneHere, feature means the body shape and build of each living creature.Note
- 13A shaped part of an object, such as a hole, slot, or rounded edge.
- 14Something found at a dig site, like a pit or old wall, that helps explain the past.
- 15A small part that makes up a sound or word in language.
- 16To imagine or picture something in your mind.
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Origin
It came through Old French and Latin from the Latin verb faciō, meaning "do, make."
Checked 5 Nov 2026 · 2 facts
- Feature derives through Old French and Latin from the Latin verb faciō. en.wiktionary.org
- The Latin verb faciō means “do, make.” dcc.dickinson.edu