Try Our Apps
Dictionary.com

follow Dictionary.com

The Best Internet Slang

feature story

noun
1.
a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style.
Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
2.
the main or most prominent story in a magazine.
Also called feature.
Origin of feature story
1910-1915
First recorded in 1910-15
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2017.
Cite This Source
Examples from the Web for feature story
Historical Examples
  • In every community the exception to the rule is played up as the feature story.

    David Lannarck, Midget George S. Harney
  • “We want to write a feature story about your machine too,” Penny continued.

    Signal in the Dark Mildred A. Wirt
  • feature story, maybe, but it's pretty run-of-the-mill stuff, even at that.

    The Telenizer Don Thompson
  • I was thinking of Cousin Pollie's comment when she first saw a feature story in the Herald signed with my name.

    Amazing Grace Kate Trimble Sharber
  • To my astonishment it was all backward, and I found myself wondering if it were a Chinese feature story.

    How To Write Special Feature Articles Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
  • The editors usually call it a feature story because it is worth printing in spite of the fact that it has no news value.

  • A very common kind of feature story is the weather story that many newspapers print every day.

  • Now that she actually was embarked upon adventure, she rather regretted she had promised Mr. DeWitt a feature story.

    The Cry at Midnight Mildred A. Wirt
  • Going straight to the point, she asked to be assigned a feature story on the cult ceremony that night in the monastery.

    The Cry at Midnight Mildred A. Wirt

Word of the Day

Difficulty index for feature story

Few English speakers likely know this word

Word Value for feature

10
11
Scrabble Words With Friends

Nearby words for feature story
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/feature-story?qsrc=2446
www.dictionary.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-43
99058
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:BSICJEGUOTQZY26BJMB4OLYY7DOHZYVO
<urn:uuid:0897df9c-36c9-4a2e-9573-94545e657c93>
2017-10-21T03:27:58Z
23.219.88.17
application/xhtml+xml
sha1:LCXIXMPZQZUV3YGE67LMGMRTKDPMQ2UO
<urn:uuid:ff34f8fe-b8bf-4120-8199-3bcf2ec020fa>
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/feature-story?qsrc=2446
response
<urn:uuid:15135fbd-f2f4-4b85-9608-f62d7e24e971>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-186-34-68.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf