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faculty

/ˈfæk.əl.ti/noun3 syllables

Faculty means: one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.

Synonyms for faculty17

noun, as in one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

mental faculty, module

noun, as in the body of teachers and administrators at a school

staff

also used for faculty

ability, attribute, capability, capacity, endowment, gift, potential, potentiality, power, propensity, property, talent, virtue, wherewithal

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What does faculty mean?2

noun

1

one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

2

the body of teachers and administrators at a school“the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Faculty in a sentence

  • The new, more diverse faculty groupings formulated a few rather left-field research questions.papabear
  • Special fares are available for senior citizens, staff, faculty and students.CM
  • I wonder what my old faculty advisor is up to.Miktsoanit
  • He was at a loss as to which faculty to choose.magnificentgoddess
  • Innovation has something to do with the faculty to notice unusual phenomena.unknown
  • Man is different from animals in that he has the faculty of speech.unknown
  • He has the faculty to learn languages easily.unknown
  • He has a faculty for making other people happy.unknown

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of faculty

as a noun

plural
faculties