feat

B2
US /fiːt/
noun adj verb Freq #12911

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a notable achievement

    Despite low expectations, the team performed a great feat.

  2. 2
    noun

    A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

    I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life.

  3. 3
    adj

    Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.

    […] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest.

  4. 4
    verb

    To form; to fashion.

    […] most praised, most loved, A sample to the youngest, to the more mature A glass that feated them, and to the graver A child that guided dotards;

  5. 5
    verb

    To feature.

    A new team suite will also be added feating new team locker rooms, a nutrition station, team meeting room, a team lounge and coaches’ offices and conference room.

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.

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Synonyms
1 noun · a notable achievement effortexploit

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