faculty
Meaning of faculty
noun
- an inherent mental or physical power.
her critical faculties
the faculty of sight
- a group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge.
the Faculty of Arts
the law faculty
- a licence or authorization from a Church authority.
the vicar introduced certain ornaments without the necessary faculty to do so
late Middle English: from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas, from facilis ‘easy’, from facere ‘make, do’.
Information about faculty
- It is a name.
- The plural form of faculty is: faculties.
- Languages in which faculty is used:
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Hyphenation of faculty
fac-ulty
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- faculty is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
faculty synonyms
Meaning mental faculty:
Meaning staff:
Meaning the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way:
Meaning the power or ability to do something:
Meaning the ability or power to do or understand something:
Meaning a natural ability to do or learn something well and easily:
Meaning latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness:
Meaning an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way:
Meaning the money or other means needed for a particular purpose:
Meaning an action or system by which a result is achieved; a method:
Meaning a state of readiness, especially for war:
Meaning a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch:
Meaning the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence:
Meaning a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event:
Meaning the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills:
Meaning a division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity:
Meaning a department or faculty of a university concerned with a particular subject of study:
Meaning the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated:
Meaning any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up:
Meaning the action of authorizing:
Meaning the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience:
Meaning that which is morally correct, just, or honourable:
Meaning the action of officially allowing someone to do a particular thing; consent or authorization:
Meaning permission for something to happen or agreement to do something:
Meaning (in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player:
Meaning a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule:
Meaning a permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic drink):
Meaning exemption from a rule or usual requirement:
Meaning the expression of approval or agreement:
Meaning the reluctant acceptance of something without protest:
Meaning harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling:
Meaning the action of approving something:
Meaning approval or praise:
Meaning the action of endorsing someone or something:
Meaning an official licence issued by the Roman Catholic Church to print an ecclesiastical or religious book:
Meaning the action or process of clearing or of being dispersed:
Meaning an official document giving someone authorization to do something:
Translation of faculty
Words that rhyme with faculty
faulty, nonfaulty, unfaulty, vaulty, counterdifficulty, difficulty, interfaculty, nonfaculty, predifficulty, profaculty, underfaculty, simulty, McNulty, stulty
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