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faculty definition

fac·ulty (fakəl tē)

noun pl. faculties -·ties

  1. Obsolete the power to do; ability to perform an action
  2. any natural or specialized power of a living organism; sense the faculty of hearing, speech, etc.
  3. power or ability to do some particular thing; special aptitude or skill a faculty for making friends
  4. Etymology: ME < ML facultas, transl. of Aristotle's dynamis, branch of learning

    in Canada, a college or school of a university
  5. ☆ all the teachers of a school, college, or university or of one of its departments or divisions
  6. all the members of any of the learned professions
    1. a power or privilege conferred by authority
    2. R.C.Ch. authorization granted to a bishop, priest, etc. permitting the performance of certain acts or functions otherwise prohibited to him
  7. Archaic what a person is trained to do
  8. any of the powers of the mind, as will or reason

Etymology: ME & OFr faculte < L facultas < facilis: see facile

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