faculty
/'fækəlti/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The collective teaching and administrative staff of a university, college, or school: "Faculty" refers to all the teachers and often the administrators within an educational institution.
- An inherent mental or physical power: "Faculty" can also mean a natural ability of the mind or body, such as the ability to see, hear, reason, or remember.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Teaching Staff):
- The university faculty voted on the new curriculum.
- She is a respected member of the history faculty.
- Noun (Inherent Power):
- The accident impaired his faculty of speech.
- Reason is a uniquely human faculty.
Advanced Usage
- "The Faculty": When capitalized and used with "the," it can informally refer to a specific professional group, most commonly medical doctors.
- He was treated by the best of the Faculty.
- "In full possession of one's faculties": An idiom meaning to have all one's mental abilities functioning normally.
- Despite his age, he is in full possession of his faculties.
Variants and Related Words
- Facultative (adj): Optional; granting permission or power. In biology, describing an organism that can live under different conditions.
- Attendance is facultative for this meeting.
- A facultative anaerobe can live with or without oxygen.
Synonyms
- Teaching Staff: Academics, professors, instructors, educators.
- Inherent Power: Capacity, capability, aptitude, sense (e.g., sense of smell), function.
Related Phrases
- Faculty member: An individual who is part of the teaching staff.
- Every faculty member has an office on campus.
- Faculty meeting: A meeting for the teaching staff of an institution.
- The new policy was announced at the faculty meeting.
Noun
- the body of teachers and administrators at a school
- the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university
- one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind