feature

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a prominent attribute or aspect of something
  2. noun the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin
  3. noun the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater

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.

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characteristic

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