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FEATURE FILM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater
Example:
the feature tonight is 'Casablanca'
Synonyms:
feature; feature film
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("feature film" is a kind of...):
film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feature film"):
horse opera; Western (a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development)