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featurette

featurette noun: a relatively short feature film.

Noun

featurette (plural featurettes)

  1. A relatively short feature film.
    • The 1950 production program of the RD-DR Corporation (Reader's Digest-deRochemont) has been expanded to include six hour-length “featurettes” in addition to two longer pictures, it was announced yesterday by Louis de Rochemont, the producer.1949 September 24, “8 Films in '50 Set by De Rochemont”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. A short film of bonus material, companion to the main feature, frequently part of additional material in a home video release on LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-Ray.
    • With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?2018 April 6, Fabrice Robinet, “Oh for the Days of the Making-Of Featurette — Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of featurette

pluralfeaturettes

Origin of featurette

From feature + -ette.

Questions about featurette

What does featurette mean?
Featurette means a relatively short feature film.
What part of speech is featurette?
Featurette is a noun.
What is the plural of featurette?
The plural of featurette is featurettes.

Words near featurette in the dictionary

  1. featurely
  2. featurephone
  3. featurephones
  4. features
  5. featuresome
  6. featurette
  7. featurettes
  8. featuretype
  9. featuretypes
  10. featurewise
  11. featuring

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