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.

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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