Other forms: feats
A feat is a deed needing great skill or courage. A remarkable feat, a feat of engineering, no mean feat.
No mean feat is the standard understatement, meaning it was very hard indeed. A feat of engineering or of memory is the usual pairing. It is the same word as fact, both from the Latin for something done, arriving by different roads.
1nounfeatA deed needing great skill or courage.
“Climbing the mountain without extra oxygen was an incredible feat.”
feat is a deed.
Old French fait comes from Latin factum, a thing done, from facere, to do. Fact is its doublet.
Latin
factum
Old French
fait
Anglo-Norman
fet — action, deed
English, today
feat
Built from
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facio (“to do, to make”). a doublet of fact.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA