faculty

1. (Canada, Philippines, US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
2. A division of a university.
3. An ability, power, or skill.
4. An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
5. (Church-of-England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
6. The members of a profession.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfæ.kəl.ti/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: faculte

In summary

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.

Synonyms

ability

talent

capacity

capability

power

skill

proficiency

department

teaching staff

knack

aptitude

school

🏫

staff

mental faculty

potency

endowment

module

genius

facility

sense

accomplishment

gift

🎁

hand

✋

holiday

instinct

knowhow

leisure

manpower

masters

might

mind

nature

pithiness

professorate

professors

property

prowess

puissance

quality

rating

robustness

science

skilled

strength

sturdiness

sufficiency

teacher

🧑‍🏫

technique

thews

vacation

Sentences

" I was in tears , shaking ," she told the faculty .

She was appointed to the faculty at the Edinburgh College of Art .