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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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penchant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendic?re, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang, to lean”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?n??n/, [?p?????]
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?nt???nt/
Noun
penchant (countable and uncountable, plural penchants)
- Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
- 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
- He has a penchant for fine wine.
- 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.
- (card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
Synonyms
- desire, see also Thesaurus:predilection
Related terms
Translations
French
Noun
penchant m (plural penchants)
- penchant
Verb
penchant
- present participle of pencher
Further reading
- “penchant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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