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English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

(non-rhotic)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.t͡ʃəː/, [ˈfɪi̯.t͡ʃəː]
(rhotic)
- (General American, Standard Canadian) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/, [ˈfɪi̯.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈfɪi̯.t͡ʃɹ̩]
  - Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -iːtʃə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: fea‧ture

Noun

feature (plural features)

(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  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.
An important or main item.
1. A component that draws attention or interest.
  a water feature
  
  Features of this model include a long battery life and a durable case.
  
  Synonym: attraction
2. (by extension, computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
  - 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom:
    The program contained an internal feature, which allowed a user to update display text after each command keystroke.
  - 2026, Ginny Graves, “The Most Important Health Metric You're Not Tracking”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2, page 18:
    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.
3. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
  - 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
    A feature interview with a noted personality or a discussion covering a specific issue is then presented.
  He was included in a feature that was written by the EspnCricinfo department on the media.
4. (film) Ellipsis of feature film.
(often plural) Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
Synonym: (literary) lineament
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.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:characteristic

one of the features of the landscape
- 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica‎^[1]:
  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.
- 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^[2], New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100, column 1:
  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.
- 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:
  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.
(archaeology) 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.
(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
(statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
Coordinate term: (output) parameter
- 2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News‎^[4], archived from the original on 12 April 2026:
  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 audience to understand.
(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music, as a collaborator. See verb sense below; also feat.
(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
Hyponyms: gender, number, person, tense

Voicing is a feature of the consonants b, d, and g.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ German: Feature
→ Polish: ficzer
→ Ukrainian: фі́ча (fíča)

Translations

important or main item — see also characteristic,‎ attraction,‎ quality

Arabic: مِيزَة f (mīza), صِفَة (ar) f (ṣifa)
Azerbaijani: xüsusiyyət (az), özəllik
Bashkir: сифат (sifat), һыҙат (hïðat)
Basque: berezitasun
Belarusian: асаблі́васць (be) f (asablívascʹ), уласці́васць (be) f (ulascívascʹ), ры́са (be) f (rýsa)
Bulgarian: сво́йство (bg) n (svójstvo), при́знак (bg) m (príznak), осо́беност (bg) f (osóbenost), черта́ (bg) f (čertá)
Catalan: tret (ca) m, característica (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 特徵 / 特征 (zh) (tèzhēng)
Czech: rys (cs)
Dutch: eigenschap (nl) f
Finnish: ominaisuus (fi)
French: caractéristique (fr) f, particularité (fr) f, spécialité (fr) f
Galician: característica (gl) f
German: Besonderheit (de) f, Charakteristikum (de) n, Eigentümlichkeit (de) f, Merkmal (de) n, Eigenschaft (de) f
Greek: χαρακτηριστικό (el) n (charaktiristikó)
Hebrew: מְאַפְיֵן m (me’afyén), סַמְמָן (he) m (samemán)
Hungarian: sajátság (hu), jellegzetesség (hu), jellemző (hu)
Italian: caratteristica (it) f, prestazione (it) f, peculiarità (it) f, proprietà (it) f, attributo (it) m, attrattiva (it) f, numero (it) m
Japanese: 特徴 (ja) (とくちょう, tokuchō)
Korean: 특징 (ko) (teukjing)
Macedonian: својство n (svojstvo), црта f (crta)
Māori: tūāhua, āhua hira
Mongolian: онцлог (mn) (onclog)
Persian: ویژگی (fa) (wīžigī, vižegi)
Polish: właściwość (pl) f, cecha (pl) f
Portuguese: característica (pt) f (Brazil, Portugal), caraterística (pt) (Portugal), qualidade (pt)
Romanian: caracteristică (ro), particularitate (ro), proprietate (ro)
Russian: осо́бенность (ru) f (osóbennostʹ), сво́йство (ru) n (svójstvo), при́знак (ru) m (príznak), черта́ (ru) f (čertá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: својство n, црта f

Latin: svojstvo (sh) n, crta (sh) f
Slovak: črta (sk) f, rys m
Slovene: značilnost f
Spanish: atractivo (es) m, prestación (es) f
Swedish: särdrag (sv), kännetecken (sv), egenhet (sv), besynnerlighet (sv), egendomlighet (sv)
Turkish: vasıf (tr)
Turkmen: aýratynlyk (tk)
Ukrainian: особли́вість f (osoblývistʹ), власти́вість (uk) f (vlastývistʹ), ри́са f (rýsa)

long, prominent article or item in the media — see also report,‎ article

Danish: feature c
Dutch: hoofdartikel (nl) n, verslag (nl) n
Finnish: pääjuttu
German: Feature (de) n or f, Feuilleton (de) n, Sonderbeitrag m
Greek: στήλη (el) f (stíli)
Hebrew: כַּתָּבַת נוֹשֵׂא f (katavát nosé)
Irish: gnéchlár m
Italian: rubrica (it) f, servizio (it) m, speciale (it) m
Manx: ard-skeeal m
Portuguese: reportagem (pt) f, artigo (pt)
Romanian: foileton (ro), reportaj (ro)
Russian: фельето́н (ru) m (felʹjetón)
Turkish: özel makale

one of the physical constituents of the face — see also trait

Albanian: tipar (sq)
Azerbaijani: cizgi (az), üz xətti
Bashkir: һыҙат (hïðat)
Bulgarian: черта́ (bg) f (čertá)
Catalan: tret (ca) m
Czech: rys (cs)
Danish: træk (da) n, ansigtstræk n
Dutch: trek (nl) m, gelaatstrek (nl) m
Esperanto: trajto (eo)
Finnish: piirre (fi), kasvonpiirre
French: trait (fr) m (du visage (fr) m; most always pl (traits))
German: Charakteristikum (de) n, Merkmal (de) n
Hindi: रूप (hi) m (rūp), शक्ल (hi) m (śakla)
Hungarian: arcvonás (hu), vonás (hu)
Italian: connotati (it), lineamenti (it), fattezze (it) f pl, configurazione (it) f, aspetto (it) m, fisionomia (it) f
Latin: vultum n
Portuguese: traço (pt) m, fisionomia (pt) f
Romanian: trăsătură (ro) (a feței)
Russian: черта́ лица́ f (čertá licá), черта́ (ru) f (čertá)
Spanish: facción (es) f
Turkish: hususiyet (tr) (obsolescent), özellik (tr), yüz hattı

The shape or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

Māori: tārainga (referring to landscape)

computing: beneficial capability of a piece of software — see also function,‎ functionality,‎ element,‎ quality

Catalan: funcionalitat f, característica (ca) f
Czech: funkce (cs)
Dutch: eigenschap (nl) f
Esperanto: kapablo, kapableco
Finnish: ominaisuus (fi), toiminto (fi), toiminnallisuus (fi)
French: fonctionnalité (fr) f
German: Feature (de) n or f, Besonderheit (de) f, Merkmal (de) n, Eigenschaft (de) f, Funktion (de) f
Greek: δυνατότητα (el) f (dynatótita)
Hungarian: funkció (hu), lehetőség (hu), szolgáltatás (hu)
Indonesian: fitur
Italian: funzionalità (it) f, accessorio (it) m, capacità (it) f, specificità (it) f, caratteristica (it) f
Latvian: funkcija f, iespēja, līdzeklis
Malay: fungsi (ms), ciri (ms)
Polish: funkcja (pl) f, możliwość (pl) f
Portuguese: função (pt) f, funcionalidade (pt) f, habilidade (pt) f, característica (pt) f (Brazil, Portugal), caraterística (pt) (Portugal)
Russian: фу́нкция (ru) f (fúnkcija), фи́ча (ru) f (fíča) slang
Serbo-Croatian: fùnkcija (sh) f, znȁčājka (sh) f
Slovene: funkcija f
Spanish: prestación (es) f
Turkish: hususiyet (tr) (obsolescent), özellik (tr)
Turkmen: aýratynlyk (tk), funksiýa
Ukrainian: фі́ча f (fíča), особли́вість f (osoblývistʹ)
Uzbek: funksiya (uz), imkoniyat (uz)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 特征 (zh) (tèzhēng), ^{(please verify)} 扮演 (zh) (bànyǎn)
Danish: ^{(please verify)} hovedemne n
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} מאמר (he)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} ciri khas
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} characteristica
Italian: ^{(please verify)} caratteristica (it) f, ^{(please verify)} qualità (it) f
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 特徴 (ja) (とくちょう, tokuchō)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 특징 (ko) (teukjing)
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} caracteristică (ro) f, ^{(please verify)} atribut (ro) m
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} crte lica f, ^{(please verify)} osobina (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} svojstvo (sh) n
Slovene: ^{(please verify)} značilnost f
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} kännemärke (sv), ^{(please verify)} kännetecknar (sv), ^{(please verify)} huvudnummer

Verb

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

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
(transitive) To star, to contain.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 275:
  Whitfield wanted to put together a new act to feature his abilities.
- 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[5], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:
  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.
(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
- 2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC‎^[6], archived from the original on 26 August 2026:
  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.
(transitive, dated) To have features resembling.
- Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)
  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.
(US regional) To think about, understand, or imagine.
- 1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 190:
  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.