featured

[ fee-cherd ]

adjective

1. made a feature or highlight; given prominence:

   a featured article; a featured actor.

2. having features or a certain kind of features (usually used in combination):

   a well-featured face.

3. Obsolete. formed; fashioned.

featured

adjective

1. in combination having features as specified

   heavy-featured

Other Words From

• multi·featured adjective
• non·featured adjective
• un·featured adjective
• well-featured adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of featured¹

First recorded in 1375–1425, featured is from the late Middle English word fetured. See feature, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Limiting contextual links to informational sites and journalistic publications may prevent featured snippets from becoming a battleground within the greater arena of the search results page.

From Search Engine Land

Before the Bills beat Indianapolis and Baltimore in these playoffs, their last postseason victory came in 1995, when Jim Kelly was their quarterback and Andre Reed their featured wideout.

From Washington Post

When Google featured it on the featured snippet, the number of clicks and the CTR was much higher than usual.

From Search Engine Land

Google made it easier to locate featured snippet text on the page it lives on by formally launching a highlighting feature that it had been testing for years.

From Search Engine Land

This is extremely impressive and shows that the featured snippet steals a substantial amount of clicks from the top position, which would get around 26% CTR in SERPs without a featured snippet.

From Search Engine Watch

These days, to be featured by Travel Noire on Instagram is like a badge of honor for many black millennial travelers.

From The Daily Beast

The Friday Night Lights television show featured characters talking of “Texas forever.”

From The Daily Beast

It was doubtless a warm reunion with his family, who are featured in The Cuban Wives.

From The Daily Beast

The audio message featured the words, “the real battle in Lebanon is yet to begin.”

From The Daily Beast

In “Sleigh Ride,” the narrator is painting a scene so perfect that it could be featured on an iconic Currier and Ives print.

From The Daily Beast

A gaunt, hard-featured domestic completed this interesting family, and she was uncommon too.

From Project Gutenberg

He went directly to the store, where no one was to be found save sharp-featured Mrs. Bailey, wife of the proprietor.

From Project Gutenberg

The one, who thus spoke his opinion of the other's aim, was an elderly man, thin and dark featured.

From Project Gutenberg

Outside and in front of the building there is a large blue-featured clock with a cast-iron inside.

From Project Gutenberg

Physically, the people are well formed, of a lofty stature and bearing, robust and good featured.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• advertised
• displayed