faculty

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   All the teachers and academic staff at a school or university.

   The whole faculty attended the meeting about the new curriculum.

2. 2
   noun

   A natural ability or power of the mind or body.

   He lived to ninety with most of his faculties intact.

3. 3
   noun

   A department or division of a university.

   She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.

Common collocations

• faculty member Noun + noun
• cogitative faculty Adjective + noun

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. Doublet of facility.

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