feat

/fiːt/

feat noun: a relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. Also the clipping of feature.

Noun

feat (plural feats)

A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
- I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life.
- Raising six children who all went on to be doctors was a tough feat for us.

Adjective

feat (comparative feater, superlative featest)

(archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
- […] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest.1590, Robert Greene, “The Shepheards Tale”, in Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, page 17
- Oh you high sp’rited Paragons of witte,
  That flye to fame beyond our earthly pitch,
  Whose sence is sound, whose words are feat and fitte,
  Able to make the coyest eare to itch:
  Shroud with your mighty wings that mount so well,
  These little loues, new crept from out the shell.1593, Thomas Lodge, “Induction”, in Phillis, London: John Busbie

Verb (1)

feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)

(obsolete) To form; to fashion.
- […] most praised, most loved,
  A sample to the youngest, to the more mature
  A glass that feated them, and to the graver
  A child that guided dotards;1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Verb (2)

feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)

(informal, transitive) To feature.
- A new team suite will also be added feating new team locker rooms, a nutrition station, team meeting room, a team lounge and coaches’ offices and conference room.2018 February 22, Christopher Walsh, “Alabama announces $21 million renovation of swimming/diving facilities”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Two films by John and Yoko, ‘Imagine’ and ‘Gimme Some Truth’ will also be re-released on October 5 feating new footage, “raw” studio mixes and a new insight into a photo shoot the couple did with iconic British photographer David Bailey.2018 August 23, Elizabeth Aubrey, “A never before heard demo of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ has been discovered”, in NME

Also used as

feat is also the clipping of feature.

feat meaning in Bengali, Punjabi, Odia and Arabic

feat in Bengali

কীর্তি

feat in Punjabi

ਕਾਰਨਾਮਾ

feat in Odia

କୀର୍ତ୍ତି, କୃତିତ୍ୱ

feat in Arabic

an accomplishment that's relatively rare or difficult: مَأْثَرَة maʔṯara

Examples of feat in a sentence

Indeed, this discovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old!1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 25:
Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC:
This could also be the match in which we see the highly-anticipated debut of an attacking triumvirate feating Nicolas Pepe, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette.2019 September 1, Cy Brown, “North London Derby 2019: How To Watch Arsenal vs. Tottenham”, in Forbes:
Last year, the rapper had a number of hit singles, including Fefe, with Nicki Minaj, and Stoopid, feating imprisoned rapper Bobby Shmurda.2019 October 3, Jack Williams, “Tell Tale Hit: Tekashi 6ix9ine testimony leads to conviction of two men on racketeering after ‘snitch’...

All 40 example sentences with feat

Forms of feat

Noun
plural	feats
Adjective
comparative	feater
superlative	featest
Verb
third-person singular present	feats
present participle	feating
past participle	feated
past	feated

Plural of feat: feats

Origin of feat

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.

Clipping of feature. See also the abbreviation feat.

Words formed from feat

Words that rhyme with feat

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Questions about feat

What does feat mean?: Feat means a relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
What is feat in Bengali?: Feat in Bengali is কীর্তি. See Feat meaning in Bengali.
How do you use feat in a sentence?: Indeed, this discovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old!
What part of speech is feat?: Feat can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce feat?: Feat is pronounced /fiːt/.
What is the plural of feat?: The plural of feat is feats.

Words near feat in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: feat (page history and authors); feat (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feat (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feat (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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