From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: /ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/

feature (plural features)

1. (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.

2. An important or main item.
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.
   1. (film) Ellipsis of feature film
4. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
5. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
6. 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: Thesaurus:characteristic

   one of the features of the landscape

7. (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.

8. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
9. (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.

   Coordinate term: (output) parameter

10. (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
11. (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

    Hyponyms: gender, number, person, tense

• French: caractéristique, particularité, spécialité
• German: Besonderheit, Charakteristikum, Eigentümlichkeit, Merkmal, Eigenschaft
• Italian: caratteristica, prestazione, peculiarità, proprietà, attributo, attrattiva, numero
• Portuguese: característica (Brazil), caraterística (Portugal), qualidade
• Russian: осо́бенность
• Spanish: característica, atracción, atractivo

• German: Feature, Feuilleton, Sonderbeitrag
• Italian: rubrica, servizio, speciale
• Portuguese: reportagem, artigo
• Russian: фельето́н
• Spanish: reportaje, artículo

• French: trait (du visage; most always p (traits))
• German: Charakteristikum, Merkmal
• Italian: connotati, lineamenti, fattezze, configurazione, aspetto, fisionomia
• Portuguese: traço, fisionomia
• Russian: черта лицо
• Spanish: rasgo, facciones

• French: fonctionnalité
• German: Feature, Besonderheit, Merkmal, Eigenschaft, Funktion, Funktion
• Italian: funzionalità, accessorio, capacità, specificità, caratteristica
• Portuguese: função, funcionalidade, habilidade, característica (Brazil), caraterística (Portugal)
• Russian: фу́нкция
• Spanish: función, funcionalidad, elemento

feature (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.
3. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
4. (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.

5. (Western Pennsylvania English) To think about, understand, or imagine.

• German: bieten, aufweisen, darbieten, besonders herausstellen
• Italian: privilegiare, ascrivere
• Portuguese: priorizar
• Russian: подчёркивать
• Spanish: priorizar

• German: in der Hauptrolle mitspielen
• Italian: interpretare, eseguire, impersonare, recitare
• Portuguese: incluir
• Spanish: protagonizar, presentar, ofrecer, incluir

• Italian: apparire, figurare, impersonare, dirigere, cantare, suonare
• Portuguese: figurar
• Russian: блистать
• Spanish: aparecer, figurar