FEATURED

featured

(adjective) having facial features as specified; usually used in combination; “a grim-featured man”

featured

(adjective) made a feature or highlight; given prominence; “a featured actor”; “a featured item at the sale”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

featured (comparative more featured, superlative most featured)

displayed with special treatment

(in combination) Having features of a particular kind.

Verb

featured

past participle of feature

Synonyms

• depicted

• displayed

Source: Wiktionary


Fea"tured, a.

1. Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak.

2. Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.

FEATURE

Fea"ture, n. Etym: [OE. feture form, shape, feature, OF. faiture fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, factum, to make. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Facture.]

1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

2. The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance. It is for homely features to keep home. Milton.

3. 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; as, one of the features of the landscape. And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser.

4. A form; a shape. [R.] So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

27 April 2024

GREAT

(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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