Other forms: features
A feature is a noticeable part or quality of something. A key feature, facial features, a new feature.
In software the line between a feature and a bug is famously disputed, and it's not a bug, it's a feature began as a joke and became a real category. A feature film is a full-length one, and a feature in a newspaper is a long article rather than news.
1nounfeatureA noticeable part or quality of something.
“The house's best feature is its large, sunny garden.”
feature is a part or quality.
Old French faiture comes from Latin factura, a making, from facere, to make.
Latin
factūra
Old French
faiture
Anglo-Norman
feture
Middle English
feture
English, today
feature
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”). a doublet of facture.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA