Definitions for faculty
ˈfæk əl tifac·ul·ty

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. faculty, mental faculty, module(noun)

   one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

2. staff, faculty(noun)

   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. faculty(Noun)

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

2. faculty(Noun)

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

3. faculty(Noun)

   An ability, skill, or power.

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

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

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

1. Faculty(noun)

   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. Faculty(noun)

   special mental endowment; characteristic knack

3. Faculty(noun)

   power; prerogative or attribute of office

4. Faculty(noun)

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

5. Faculty(noun)

   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. Faculty(noun)

   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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Faculty

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

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

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. Henry Christopher Bailey:

   Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

2. Susan Dunton:

   She definitely drew out each student and faculty member.

3. Joseph Addison:

   Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

4. Sharon Holland:

   The procedures used during the training were not authorized by USU faculty.

5. Samuel Butler:

   Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

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