Definitions for faculty
ˈfæk əl tifac·ul·ty

Princeton's WordNet(3.34 / 9 votes)Rate this definition:

1. faculty, mental faculty, modulenoun

   one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

2. staff, facultynoun

   the body of teachers and administrators at a school

   "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. facultynoun

   The scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.

2. facultynoun

   A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).

3. facultynoun

   An ability, skill, or power.

   He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.

4. Etymology: From faculte, from faculte, from facultas, another form of facilitas, from facul, another form of facilis; see facile.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Facultynoun

   Etymology: facultè, French; facultas, Latin.

   1. The power of doing any thing; ability whether corporal or intellectual.

   There is no kind of faculty or power in man, or any creature, which can rightly perform the functions allotted to it without perpetual aid and concurrence of that supreme cause of all things. Richard Hooker, b. i. s. 8.

   Orators may grieve; for in their sides,
   Rather than heads, their faculty abides. John Denham.

   Reason in man supplies the defect of other faculties wherein we are inferior to beasts, and what we cannot compass by force we bring about by stratagem. Roger L'Estrange.

   2. Powers of the mind, imagination, reason, memory.

   For well I understand in the prime end
   Of nature, her the inferior; in the mind
   And inward faculties, which most excel. John Milton, Parad. Lost.

   In the ordinary way of speaking, the understanding and will are two faculties of the mind. John Locke.

   Neither did our Saviour think it necessary to explain to us the nature of God, because it would be impossible, without bestowing on us other faculties than we possess at present. Jonathan Swift.

   3. [In physick.]A power or ability to perform any action natural, vital, and animal: by the first they understand that by which the body is nourished and augmented, or another like it generated: the vital faculty is that by which life is preserved, and the ordinary functions of the body performed; and the animal faculty is what conducts the operations of the mind. John Quincy4. A knack; habitual excellence; dexterity.

   He had none of those faculties, which the other had, of reconciling men to him. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

   A sober man would have wondered how our author found out monarchical absolute power in that text, had he not had an exceeding good faculty to find it himself where he could not shew it others. John Locke.

   He had an excellent faculty in preaching, if he were not too refined. Jonathan Swift.

   5. Quality; disposition or habit of good or ill.

   I’m traduc’d by tongues which neither know
   My faculties nor person, yet will be
   The chronicles of my doing. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   6. Power; authority.

   This Duncan
   Hath born his faculties so meek, hath been
   So clear in his great office, that his virtues
   Will plead like angels. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   7. Privilege; right to do any thing.

   Law hath set down to what persons, in what causes, with what circumstances, almost every faculty or favour shall be granted. Richard Hooker, b. v.

   8. Faculty, in an university, denotes the masters and professors of the several sciences: as, a meeting of the faculty or faculties.

Webster Dictionary(4.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Facultynoun

   ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul

2. Facultynoun

   special mental endowment; characteristic knack

3. Facultynoun

   power; prerogative or attribute of office

4. Facultynoun

   privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation

5. Facultynoun

   a body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect

6. Facultynoun

   the body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college

Freebase(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Faculty

   A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas. In American usage such divisions are generally referred to as colleges or schools, but may also mix terminology. The medieval University of Paris, which served as a model for most of the later medieval universities in Europe, had four faculties: the Faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine, and finally the Faculty of Arts, from which every student had to graduate in order to continue his training in one of the other three, sometimes known as the higher faculties. The privilege to establish these four faculties was usually part of all medieval charters for universities, but not every university could do so in practice. The Faculty of Arts took its name from the seven liberal arts: the trivium and the quadrivium. In German, Scandinavian, Slavic and other universities, the name for this faculty would more often literally translate as 'faculty of philosophy'. The degree of Magister Artium derives its name from the Faculty of Arts, while the degree of Doctor of Philosophy originates within German education and derives its name from the German name of the Arts faculty.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Faculty

   fak′ul-ti, n. facility or power to act: any particular ability or aptitude: an original power of the mind: any physical capability or function: personal quality or endowment: right, authority, or privilege to act: license: a department of learning at a university, or the professors constituting it: the members of a profession: executive ability.—adj. Fac′ultātive, optional: of or pertaining to a faculty.—Court of Faculties, a court established by Henry VIII., whereby authority is given to the Archbishop of Canterbury to grant dispensations and faculties. [Fr.,—L. facultatem—facilis, easy.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Faculty

   The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in an educational institution.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. faculty

   An ability, skill or power.

   We all have various faculties which we can relate to e.g. memory, thought, imagination etc,

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 31, 2019  

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British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'faculty' in Nouns Frequency: #2122

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of faculty in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of faculty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of faculty in a Sentence

1. William Shakespeare:

   What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god

2. An SDSU spokesperson:

   As a public institution, we do not and can not regulate the private speech of students, faculty or staff, however, that should not imply the university’s endorsement of any particular viewpoint.

3. Robert Louis Stevenson:

   A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

4. Stuart Reges:

   We should be encouraging students to be anti-fragile rather than shielding them from ideas that they might find upsetting. i have received a few supportive statements from faculty, but most faculty have not commented on the situation one way or the other.

5. Dori Hutchinson:

   BU is listening, BU cares, we're listening because there's so much student distress out there and we know from the research ... two-thirds of the students, when they're really struggling, they don't go to campus mental health professionals or faculty or even their parents. They go to each other.

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