faculty
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, properly, Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile.
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Noun [edit]
faculty (plural faculties)
- The scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
- An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
- 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 12, The Myth of Mental Illness[1], ISBN 0-06-091151-4, page 201:
- I have used the notion of games so far as if it were familiar to most people. I think this is justified as everyone knows how to play some games. Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena. Yet the ability to follow rules, play games, and construct new games is a faculty not equally shared by all persons. [...]
- He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
- 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 12, The Myth of Mental Illness[1], ISBN 0-06-091151-4, page 201:
Synonyms [edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:faculty
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Translations [edit]
scholarly staff at colleges or universities
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division of a university
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ability, skill, or power
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External links [edit]
- faculty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- faculty in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
