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faculty
English
Etymology
From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fæ.k?l.ti/
Noun
faculty (plural faculties)
- (chiefly US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- A division of a university.
- Often in the plural: an ability, power, or skill.
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
- The members of a profession.
Usage notes
In the sense of academic staff at a university, academic staff, teaching staff or simply staff are preferred in British English.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:faculty
Related terms
- facultative
Translations
Further reading
- faculty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- faculty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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