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Feature   /fˈitʃər/   Listen
Feature

noun
1.
A prominent attribute or aspect of something.  Synonym: characteristic.  "Generosity is one of his best characteristics"
2.
The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin.  Synonym: lineament.  "His lineaments were very regular"
3.
The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater.  Synonym: feature film.
4.
A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine.  Synonym: feature article.
5.
(linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind.  Synonym: feature of speech.
6.
An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles.
verb
1.
Have as a feature.  Synonym: have.
2.
Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner.  Synonyms: boast, sport.



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"Feature" Quotes from Famous Books



... hurricane, sabered the enemy, and put thousands on the run. Swerving aside, they next charged deep into the German rear, mauled the reserves into confusion, hacked their way out again and captured several machine guns. The most remarkable feature about this extraordinary exploit was the fact that the losses sustained by the cavalry amounted only to 200 killed and wounded. The effect on the "phalanx," however, was such that no more attacks were made that day, and the Russians were able ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan

... to repeat their interviews, they were for some time employed in] a reserved conversation, to which all the world might have listened; excepting, when discussing some literary subject, flashes of sentiment, inforced by each relaxing feature, seemed to remind them that their minds ...
— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft

... are a remarkably tall and robust race of men; in form and feature they bespeak strength of body and energy of mind: but one seldom sees that thorough-bred look, which, so frequently found in the poorest peasants of Italy and Greece, shows that the descendants of the most ...
— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton

... The feature that will stamp Prussian War forever, and make this group of campaigns stand out from all others, is the character of its murder ...
— Raemaekers' Cartoons - With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers • Louis Raemaekers

... ladies and fine gentlemen in the polite world, the learned physicians extolled its medicinal virtues." From the coffee house and its more aristocratic relative the chocolate house, there developed a new feature in English social life—the Club. As the years passed the Chocolate House remained a rendezvous, but the character of its habitues changed from time to time. Thus one, famous in the days of Queen Anne, and well known by its sign of the "Cocoa Tree," was at first the headquarters of the Jacobite ...
— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp


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