Featuring

How to spell featuring

9 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce featuring

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does featuring mean?

1. verbGiving prominence to, presenting, or including someone or something as a notable part.

Featuring in a sentence

• The new album, featuring several guest singers, sold out within hours.

• A documentary featuring rare deep-sea footage aired last night.

Where does featuring come from?

Language of origin: French

This is the present participle of the verb 'feature', which began life as a noun. English took it through Old French 'faiture' or 'feture', meaning 'a making' or 'a shaping', which descended from the Latin 'factura', literally 'a making' or 'formation', built on the verb 'facere', 'to make or do'. For centuries 'feature' referred mainly to the make or shape of the face, which is why we still speak of a person's facial features. By the 1900s the noun had widened to mean any prominent characteristic, and a verb sense developed meaning 'to give prominence to', which is the meaning behind 'featuring'. The same 'facere' root sits inside everyday relatives such as 'factory', 'manufacture', and 'fact', and the spelling trap is mostly the deceptive 'ea' vowel plus the dropped silent 'e' when '-ing' is added.

How the word is built

• feat- (from Latin factura: a making, shape)
• -ure (noun-forming)
• -ing (present participle)