faculty
Plural: faculties
Noun
- An inherent mental or physical power; a natural ability.
- one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
- the body of teachers and administrators at a school
- The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- A division of a university.
- an ability, power, or skill.
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- A licence to make alterations to a church.
- The members of a profession.
Examples
- He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
- Her faculty for finding obscure words often gave her an edge in Words With Friends.
- She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
mental faculty, module, staff, ability, attribute, capability, capacity, endowment, faculty, gift, potential, potentiality, power, propensity, property, talent, virtue, wherewithal
Scrabble Score: 15
faculty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfaculty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
faculty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary