Feature Meaning
/ˈfiː.t͡ʃəː/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
nounAn important or main item., A component that draws attention or interest.
Sentence Examples
The show will be a great feature of tonight's program.
Scrums are a feature of Rugby football.
An interesting feature of the city is the old market.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The new phone has a unique ____ that allows it to take photos underwater.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
One interesting ____ of this new smartphone is its ability to translate languages in real time.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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:
"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:
"Another recently discovered cave temple site, Shizikou in Linyou County, Shaanxi, preserves sculptures with thin legs, particularly bodhisattvas, that are much taller and more slender than the figures of this niche but share a number of stylistic features, including a diagonal chest shawl and a dhoti with an overlapping apron of cloth that falls from the waist in the same two-part pattern of scalloped folds and a waist tie hanging down the middle; they have long tubular arms as well."
— 2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Niche with Amitabha Buddha and two Guanyin (Skt. Avalokiteshvara) Bodhisattvas [龛式阿弥陀佛和二观音菩萨造像]”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100, column 1:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The new phone has a unique ____ that allows it to take photos underwater.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
One interesting ____ of this new smartphone is its ability to translate languages in real time.