FEATURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does featured mean? 

• FEATURED (adjective)
  The adjective FEATURED has 2 senses:

1. made a feature or highlight; given prominence

2. having facial features as specified; usually used in combination

  Familiarity information: FEATURED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEATURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made a feature or highlight; given prominence

Context example:

a featured item at the sale

Similar:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having facial features as specified; usually used in combination

Context example:

a grim-featured man

Similar:

faced (having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

My aunt was a tall, hard-featured lady, but by no means ill-looking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His age might have been something over fifty, and his swarthy, harshly-featured face was already deeply lined either by his years or by his excesses.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had no sympathy in their appearance, their expression: yet I could imagine that most observers would call them attractive, handsome, imposing; while they would pronounce Mr. Rochester at once harsh-featured and melancholy-looking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was featured on a program called Stargazing Live on the Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

(Multi-planet System Found Through Crowdsourcing, NASA)

Called the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, it featured 42 pacemakers — supporting runners.

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, in their stories.

(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)

An earlier, lower-resolution version of the view, published in 2001, featured colors that had been strongly enhanced.

(NASA Issues 'Remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)

"Ephemera" had been featured, with gorgeous head-piece and Beardsley-like margin decorations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Previously, the only available diagnostic atlas featured photos of patients with northern European ancestry, which often does not represent the characteristics of these diseases in patients from other parts of the world.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

The Datura genus, which includes stramonium, encompasses a number of plant species that have featured heavily in the traditional medicine and popular culture of countries such as Mexico and Spain.

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)