faculty
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Noun (2)faculties
- one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mindSynonyms: mental facultymoduleType of ability, powerKinds sense, volition, memory, reason, attention, language
- the body of teachers and administrators at a school“the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university”Synonyms: staffType of bodyMember of schoolMembers professor, prof
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Translations
Noun division of a university
- Spanish
- facultad
- French
- faculté
- German
- Fakultät
- Italian
- facoltà
- Portuguese
- faculdade
- Turkish
- fakülte
- Russian
- факульте́т fakulʹtét
- Arabic
- كُلِّيَّة kulliyya
- Chinese
- 学院 xuéyuàn
- Japanese
- 学部 gakubu
21 more languages
- Dutch
- faculteit
- Polish
- fakultet
- Swedish
- fakultet
- Greek
- σχολή scholí
- Korean
- 학부 hakbu
- Indonesian
- fakultas
- Vietnamese
- khoa
- Portuguese (PT)
- faculdade
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 系 xì
- Catalan
- facultat
- Czech
- fakulta
- Danish
- fakultet
- Finnish
- tiedekunta
- Georgian
- ფაკულტეტი paḳulṭeṭi
- Hebrew
- פָקוּלְטָה fakúlta
- Latvian
- fakultāte
- Lithuanian
- fakultetas
- Norwegian
- fakultet
- Romanian
- facultate
- Serbo-Croatian
- fakultet
- Slovenian
- fakulteta
Noun ability, skill, or power
- French
- faculté
- Portuguese
- faculdade
- Turkish
- yeti
- Russian
- спосо́бность sposóbnostʹ
- Chinese
- 能力 nénglì
- Polish
- zdolność
- Greek
- ικανότητα ikanótita
- Portuguese (PT)
- faculdade
- Catalan
- facultat
- Finnish
- kyky
1 more language
- Scottish Gaelic
- ceudfath
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. facult…, L. facultas, fr. facilis easy (cf. facul easily), fr. fecere to make. See Fact, and cf. Facility.
1. Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief.— John Milton
What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty !— William Shakespeare
2. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.— Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Power; prerogative or attribute of office. rare
This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek.— William Shakespeare
4. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
The pope... granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise.— Thomas Fuller
It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges.— John Evelyn
5. A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, etc.
6. Amer. Colleges The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
Dean of faculty. See under Dean. — Faculty of advocates. Scot. See under Advocate.
Synonyms: Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness; cleverness; readiness; ability; knack.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54