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feature

Syllables: fea·tureUK/ˈfiː.t͡ʃəː//ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/

feature noun: one's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions. Also the ellipsis of feature film.

Noun

feature (plural features)

  1. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
    • 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, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. A component that draws attention or interest.
    • a water feature
    • Features of this model include a long battery life and a durable case.
    Synonyms:
    attraction
  3. (broadly) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
    • The program contained an internal feature, which allowed a user to update display text after each command keystroke.2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom
    • Whoop Life has a feature called Blood Pressure Insights that uses various bits of data—including heart rate, HRV, and blood flow patterns—to estimate your blood pressure.2026, Ginny Graves, “The Most Important Health Metric You're Not Tracking”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2, page 18
  4. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
    • A feature interview with a noted personality or a discussion covering a specific issue is then presented.1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 8
    • He was included in a feature that was written by the EspnCricinfo department on the media.
  5. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
    Synonyms:
    lineament
  6. 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.
    • one of the features of the landscape
    • The most prominent feature of the New England land system was the town grant, which in every case became the territorial basis of a group settlement.1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  7. Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
    • A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
  8. Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
  9. (machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
    • MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine-learning models. Drawing on years of field work, they developed a taxonomy to help developers craft features that will be easier for their target...2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News
  10. The act of being featured in a piece of music, as a collaborator. See verb sense below; also feat.
  11. The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
    • Voicing is a feature of the consonants b, d, and g.

Verb

feature (third-person singular simple present features, present participle featuring, simple past and past participle featured)

  1. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
  2. (transitive) To star, to contain.
    • Whitfield wanted to put together a new act to feature his abilities.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 275
    • England are up and running. Again. It has been a happy feature of the Gareth Southgate years that his team always win their opening tie at tournaments. It never used to be the case with England but to the list that features Tunisia, Croatia and Iran can be added the name of Serbia.2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian
  3. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
    • Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water and Layla by Derek and the Dominos also featured in the top five.2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC
  4. (dated, transitive) To have features resembling.
    • 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)
  5. (US, regional) To think about, understand, or imagine.
    • She could feature Charles doing it, but Jerome was the perfect model of an altar boy, who made you wonder after all if there was such a bugaboo as original sin.1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 190

Also used as

feature is also the ellipsis of feature film.

feature meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Kannada

feature in Hindi

one of the physical constituents of the face
रूप rūp, शक्ल śakla

feature in Marathi

वैशिष्ट्य

feature in Telugu

లక్షణం, ఫీచర్, లక్షణము

feature in Kannada

ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯ, ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯತೆ, ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯಗೊಳಿಸುವುದಕ್ಕೆ
More languagesFewer languages
feature in Punjabi
ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ਤਾ, ਫੀਚਰ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
feature in Gujarati
લક્ષણ, ફીચર
feature in Arabic
مِيزَة mīza, صِفَة ṣifa
feature in Malay
fungsi, ciri
feature in Indonesian
fitur
feature in Persian
ویژگی wīžigī, vižegi

Examples of feature in a sentence

  • The old man had craggy, uncultured features, but had bright, intelligent eyes.
  • We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.
  • This is an advanced prototype, it already has most of the features the final product will have.

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Synonyms of feature

7 more synonymsFewer synonyms

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Forms of feature

Noun
pluralfeatures
Verb
third-person singular presentfeatures
present participlefeaturing
past participlefeatured
pastfeatured

Past tense of feature: featured

Plural of feature: features

Origin of feature

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 do, put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

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Questions about feature

What does feature mean?
Feature means one's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
What is feature in Hindi?
Feature in Hindi is रूप (rūp), शक्ल (śakla). See Feature meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is feature?
Feature can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce feature?
Feature is pronounced /ˈfiː.t͡ʃəː/ (UK).
What is the plural of feature?
The plural of feature is features.

Words near feature in the dictionary

  1. featuous
  2. featurable
  3. featural
  4. featurality
  5. featurally
  6. feature
  7. feature back
  8. feature backs
  9. feature control frame
  10. feature control frames
  11. feature creep

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: feature (page history and authors); feature (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feature (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feature (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feature (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feature (Gujarati, 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.

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