feat
See also: feat.
English
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
feat (plural feats)
- A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
- 2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC[1]:
- Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.
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Translations
an accomplishment that's relatively rare or difficult
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Adjective
feat (comparative feater, superlative featest)
- (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
- 1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, “The Shepheards Tale,” p. 17,[2]
- […] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest.
- 1593, Thomas Lodge, Phillis, London: John Busbie, “Induction,”[3]
- Oh you high sp’rited Paragons of witte,
- That flye to fame beyond our earthly pitch,
- Whose sence is sound, whose words are feat and fitte,
- Able to make the coyest eare to itch:
- Shroud with your mighty wings that mount so well,
- These little loues, new crept from out the shell.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act V, Scene 5,[4]
- […] never master had
- A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,
- So tender over his occasions, true,
- So feat, so nurse-like:
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1,[5]
- And look how well my garments sit upon me;
- Much feater than before:
- 1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, “The Shepheards Tale,” p. 17,[2]
Verb
feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)
- (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 1,[6]
- […] 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;
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 1,[6]
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