Definitions for faculty

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faculty fac·ul·ty

Spelling: [fak-uh l-tee]

IPA: /ˈfæk əl ti/

Faculty is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in faculty (acfltuy).

Definitions for faculty

noun

1. an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action:
2. one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech:
3. an inherent capability of the body:
4. exceptional ability or aptitude:
5. Education. the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school. one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university. the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.
6. the members of a learned profession:
7. a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.:
8. Ecclesiastical. a dispensation, license, or authorization.

Origin of faculty

1350-1400; Middle English faculte Anglo-French, Middle French Latin facultāt- (stem of facultās) ability, power, equivalent to facil(is) easy (see facile) + -tāt- <

Examples for faculty

The chairperson at Doe's disciplinary was faculty member Dennis Conway.

All students and faculty in the UT community should support the cause of fairness in admissions.

Why resist, and refuse the glory of belonging to the faculty?

The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one.

Calvin faculty have shaped Christian discourse in important ways since its founding in 1876.

Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps, the faculty for discourse?

Hold your tongue, simpleton; it is not for you to control the decrees of the faculty.

Miss Hilton, a member of the Overton faculty, would chaperon her.

It is only to give the name of man's faculty to that power after which and by which it was fashioned.

Second, the Charles Koch Foundation would at least partially control which faculty members Florida State University hired.