faculty 
fac·ulty (fak′əl tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- Obsolete the power to do; ability to perform an action
- any natural or specialized power of a living organism; sense the faculty of hearing, speech, etc.
- power or ability to do some particular thing; special aptitude or skill a faculty for making friends
Etymology: ME < ML facultas, transl. of Aristotle's dynamis, branch of learning
in Canada, a college or school of a university- ☆ all the teachers of a school, college, or university or of one of its departments or divisions
- all the members of any of the learned professions
- a power or privilege conferred by authority
- R.C.Ch. authorization granted to a bishop, priest, etc. permitting the performance of certain acts or functions otherwise prohibited to him
- Archaic what a person is trained to do
- any of the powers of the mind, as will or reason
Etymology: ME & OFr faculte < L facultas < facilis: see facile
faculty
n.
A special aptitude
A group of specialists, usually engaged in instruction or research
staff, faculty members, teachers, personnel, instructors, employees, university, college, institute, department, teaching staff, instructional staff, research staff, research workers, teaching assistants, body of professors, professoriate, clinic, society, body, organization, corps, instructional corps, mentors, professors, assistant professors, associate professors, docents, tutors, functionaries, foundation, pedagogues, lecturers, monitors, advisers, masters, scholars, literati, dons, fellows, profs*, TA's*, ABD's*. See syn. study at talent.talent.
Preposition: of
- Classics: The scholarships shall be managed by the Board of the Faculty of Classics.
- advocate: The Faculty of Advocates The Faculty has started to use its new complaints procedures, with marked success.
- theology: But in 1817 the universitys Catholic faculty of theology was restored.
Converse of object
- possess: There follows a description of the psychometric powers of the wife of a professor of geology, who possessed the faculty in marked degree.
Adjective modifier
- adjunct: He was an Adjunct Faculty at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois teaching Geodetic Science.
- noetic: Each individual experiences the fall of his own noetic faculty.
- critical: The onus is on the user to apply a critical faculty.
- alterative: In fact, the alterative faculty has now been discovered as well, although about this also has not written a word.
- rational: The primary engagement with the printed text is one of analysis as we act upon the text using our rational faculties.
- theological: At this point American readers must be informed about the complicated legal basis on which the existence of theological faculties in Germany is based.
Modifies a noun
- librarian: Your faculty librarian may be involved at this point.
- member: The majority of young faculty members now fail to get tenure.
- rep: There are five faculty reps and there are several officers elected to aid and abet the sabbatical officers.
- board: The faculty board is advised by an External Advisory Panel, whose annual meetings are also attended by two graduate representatives.
- advisor: There are also lists of contacts and faculty advisors and further wildlife and raptor links.
Noun used with modifier
- Classics: The college is grateful to the Classics Faculty for its generous financial support.
- university: The eastern wing houses the university faculty for modern languages, The Taylor Institution.
- reasoning: It was I who, using my psionic abilities, destroyed the reasoning faculties of the Enigma craft's guidance system.
- humanity: This paper reports on a comparative study of how the science and humanities faculties of two universities in South Africa have interpreted the policy.
- tenure: The Department is composed of 19 tenure track faculty, several adjunct faculty and approximately 60 graduate students.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The poet shares with other artists the faculty of seeing things as though for the first time.
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