"faculty" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfæ.kəl.ti/ Audio: en-us-faculty.ogg [US] Forms: faculties [plural]
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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|faculte||power, property}} Middle English faculte (“power, property”), {{der|en|fro|faculte}} Old French faculte, {{der|en|ML.|-}} Medieval Latin, {{der|en|la|facultas||capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers}} Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), {{m|la|facilitas||easiness, facility, etc.}} facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), {{m|la|facul}} facul, {{m|la|facilis||easy, facile}} facilis (“easy, facile”), {{m|en|facile}} facile, {{doublet|en|facility}} Doublet of facility Head templates: {{en-noun}} faculty (plural faculties)
  1. (chiefly Canada, US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff. Tags: Canada, US Translations (scholarly staff at colleges or universities): opetushenkilökunta (Finnish), Kollegium [neuter] (German), Lehrpersonal [neuter] (German), 教授会 (kyōjukai) (alt: きょうじゅかい) (Japanese), fakultet [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), fakultet [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), corpo docente [masculine] (Portuguese), профе́ссорско-преподава́тельский соста́в (proféssorsko-prepodavátelʹskij sostáv) [masculine] (Russian), профессу́ра (professúra) [feminine] (Russian), nastavničko osoblje [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), cuerpo docente [masculine] (Spanish), kollegium [neuter] (Swedish), lärarkollegium [neuter] (Swedish), kaguro (Tagalog), професу́ра (profesúra) [feminine] (Ukrainian), профе́сорсько-виклада́цький склад (profésorsʹko-vykladácʹkyj sklad) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-faculty-en-noun-wR3NG38Q Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 2 7 16 16 17 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 2 8 14 12 10 Disambiguation of 'scholarly staff at colleges or universities': 52 30 3 5 4 5
  2. A division of a university. Categories (topical): Education Translations (division of a university): كُلِّيَّة (kulliyya) [feminine] (Arabic), ֆակուլտետ (fakultet) (Armenian), fakültə (Azerbaijani), факультэ́т (fakulʹtét) [masculine] (Belarusian), аддзе́л (addzjél) [masculine] (Belarusian), факулте́т (fakultét) [masculine] (Bulgarian), facultat [feminine] (Catalan), (xì) (Chinese Mandarin), fakulta [feminine] (Czech), fakultet [neuter] (Danish), faculteit (Dutch), fakultato (Esperanto), tiedekunta (Finnish), faculté [feminine] (French), composante [feminine] (French), U.E.R. [feminine] (French), U.F.R. [feminine] (French), facultade [feminine] (Galician), ფაკულტეტი (paḳulṭeṭi) (Georgian), Fakultät [feminine] (German), σχολή (scholí) [feminine] (Greek), פָקוּלְטָה (fakúlta) [feminine] (Hebrew), fakultas (Indonesian), facoltà [feminine] (Italian), 学部 (gakubu) (alt: がくぶ) (Japanese), дацң (datsñ) (Kalmyk), факультет (fakultet) (Kazakh), មហាវិទ្យាល័យ (mɔhaavityiəlay) (Khmer), 학부 (hakbu) (alt: 學部) (Korean), 학과 (hakgwa) (alt: 學科) (Korean), факультет (fakultet) (Kyrgyz), факулте́т (fakultét) [masculine] (Macedonian), fakultet [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), fakultet [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), دانِشْکَدِه (dâneškade) (Persian), wydział [masculine] (Polish), fakultet [masculine] (Polish), setor [masculine] (Portuguese), faculdade (Portuguese), facultate [feminine] (Romanian), факульте́т (fakulʹtét) [masculine] (Russian), отделе́ние (otdelénije) [neuter] (Russian), факу̀лте̄т [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), fakùltēt [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), fakulta [feminine] (Slovak), oddelenie [neuter] (Slovak), fakulteta [feminine] (Slovene), facultad [feminine] (Spanish), fakultet [common-gender] (Swedish), kaguruan (Tagalog), fakülte (Turkish), факульте́т (fakulʹtét) [masculine] (Ukrainian), відді́л (viddíl) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-faculty-en-noun-PF1xKhXu Disambiguation of Education: 0 60 27 13 0 0 Disambiguation of 'division of a university': 7 88 3 1 0 0
  3. (Often in the plural): an ability, power, or skill. Translations (ability, skill, or power): спосо́бност (sposóbnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), уме́ние (uménie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), facultat [feminine] (Catalan), kapablo (Esperanto), voima (Finnish), kyky (Finnish), taito (Finnish), facultade [feminine] (Galician), Vermögen [neuter] (German), Fähigkeit [feminine] (German), Begabung [feminine] (German), 技能 (ginō) (alt: ぎのう) (Japanese), способност (sposobnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), вештина (veština) [feminine] (Macedonian), parapara (Maori), mauri tangata (Maori), evne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), evne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), zdolność [feminine] (Polish), faculdade [feminine] (Portuguese), putință [feminine] (Romanian), abilitate [feminine] (Romanian), capacitate [feminine] (Romanian), спосо́бность (sposóbnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), возмо́жность (vozmóžnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), дар (dar) [masculine] (Russian), ceudfath (english: mental) [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), sposobnost [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), facultad [feminine] (Spanish), färdighet [common-gender] (Swedish), förmåga [common-gender] (Swedish), yeti (Turkish), зді́бність (zdíbnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), дар (dar) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-faculty-en-noun-G9yhYcet Disambiguation of 'ability, skill, or power': 2 3 89 5 1 0
  4. An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
    Sense id: en-faculty-en-noun-0LE~JoC5
  5. (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church. Tags: Church-of-England Categories (topical): Church of England
    Sense id: en-faculty-en-noun-CoOtgkOZ
  6. The members of a profession.
    Sense id: en-faculty-en-noun-jhooLnpS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Holonyms: reason Related terms: facultative, skill

Inflected forms

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          "text": "If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "word": "ფაკულტეტი"
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "setor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "word": "faculdade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facultate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fakulʹtét",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "факульте́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otdelénije",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "отделе́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "факу̀лте̄т"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fakùltēt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fakulta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "oddelenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fakulteta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facultad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fakultet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "word": "kaguruan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "word": "fakülte"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "fakulʹtét",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "факульте́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "viddíl",
      "sense": "division of a university",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "відді́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sposóbnost",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "спосо́бност"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "uménie",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "уме́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facultat"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "word": "kapablo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "word": "voima"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "word": "kyky"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "word": "taito"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facultade"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Vermögen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fähigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Begabung"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぎのう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ginō",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "word": "技能"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "sposobnost",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "способност"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "veština",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вештина"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "word": "parapara"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "word": "mauri tangata"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "evne"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "evne"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zdolność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "faculdade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "putință"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "abilitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "capacitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sposóbnostʹ",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "спосо́бность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vozmóžnostʹ",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "возмо́жность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dar",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дар"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "english": "mental",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ceudfath"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sposobnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facultad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "färdighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "förmåga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "word": "yeti"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zdíbnistʹ",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "зді́бність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dar",
      "sense": "ability, skill, or power",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дар"
    }
  ],
  "word": "faculty"
}

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