Words / B2

FEET/fiːt/

A feat is an impressive, difficult achievement: a feat of engineering; no mean feat. Achievement is wider; stunt can sound cheap. Publishing the scripts was a feat of document control. Mix-up: feet is the body part / unit. Do not call handing in on time a feat unless it truly was hard.

Meaning

An impressive and difficult achievement.

Examples

• “Publishing the unmarked scripts was a feat of document control.”
• “Completing the paper in ink with a broken wrist was no mean feat, which is an idiom.”

Good to know

a feat of + noun; no mean feat. Wider: achievement. Informal cheap twin: stunt. Trap: feet. News features and citations.

Near in meaning

achievement

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