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faculty

Pronunciation: /ˈfæk.əl.ti/

The English word “faculty” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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. A licence to make alterations to a church.
  6. The members of a profession.

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. Doublet of facility.

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