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featuring

featuring is the present participle and gerund of feature.

Meaning of feature

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
  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

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Noun

featuring (plural featurings)

  1. (rap music) A cameo on another performer's track.

Forms of featuring

pluralfeaturings

Questions about featuring

What does featuring mean?
Featuring means a cameo on another performer's track.
What is featuring the present participle and gerund of?
Featuring is the present participle and gerund of feature.
What part of speech is featuring?
Featuring is a noun.
What is the plural of featuring?
The plural of featuring is featurings.

Words near featuring in the dictionary

  1. featurette
  2. featurettes
  3. featuretype
  4. featuretypes
  5. featurewise
  6. featuring
  7. featurings
  8. featurish
  9. featurism
  10. featuritis
  11. featurization

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