FEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feat mean? 

• FEAT (noun)
  The noun FEAT has 1 sense:

1. a notable achievement

  Familiarity information: FEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A notable achievement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

effort; exploit; feat

Context example:

the book was her finest effort

Hypernyms ("feat" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feat"):

derring-do (brave and heroic feats)

hit ((baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball))

rally; rallying (the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort)

stunt (a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention)

tour de force (a masterly or brilliant feat)

 Context examples 

The old man evidently thought that his son was exaggerating in his description of one or two trivial feats which I had performed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With an area beneath, it was no mean feat to reach that window ledge and open that window.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, as you know, my habits are irregular, and such a feat means less to me than to most men.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Determining that a particular particle had been ejected and returned to Bennu might be a scientific feat similar to finding a needle in a haystack.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).

(Black Hole Image Makes History, NASA)

This revealed a fingerprint of the chemicals in the atmosphere - a feat possible due to a spectrometer on the Keck 2 telescope called the Near-Infrared Cryogenic Echelle Spectrograph (NIRSPEC).

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Do you think that you could perform one more feat?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But surely, my fair lord,” said Alleyne, “you have done some great feats of arms since we left the Lady Loring.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of our first feats in the housekeeping way was a little dinner to Traddles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I held on to the rail with one hand and supported her weight with the other, and I was proud at the moment of the feat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)