double feature
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- noun
- /ˈdʌbəl ˈfiːtʃər/
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doble sesión
- The small theater in town offers a double feature every Saturday, showing two classic movies back-to-back.
- double feature of horror
- double feature presented in theaters
- double feature every afternoon
Examples
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I strolled in at four o'clock for the double feature and came out at eight-thirty with plenty of time left for homework.
Fiction book (1999) -
There's a double feature in the village tonight.
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Is this a double feature?
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How about a double feature?
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Say, why did my wife have to go to a double feature the one night I had you on the run?
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I'd take her to Radio City for a double feature.
Fiction book (1999) -
A double feature is playing: Cry of Battle with Van Heflin and War is Hell.
Fiction book (1991) -
Come on Jan, we don't want to miss any part of that double feature.
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We had a Rick Dalton double feature in our screening room last night.
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So how about a Halloween double feature of movies that pointedly question this strangely now-ubiquitous sub-genre?
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Synonyms
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Two games played one after the other between the same teams on the same day
Two games that the same teams play on the same day, usually in baseball
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'two films/games shown in succession' is directly derivable from combining 'double' (twofold) with 'feature' (main film or match), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer 'two features' presented together. The composition follows a regular, literal pattern (number + noun) that is cross-linguistically common, making the expression immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun double feature comes from old movie theaters that showed two main films one after the other for the price of a single ticket. The word double means 'two' and feature means the main film, so the phrase now means 'two films or two games shown one after the other'.