Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage

Topic: COLLEGE

Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: faculté, from Latin facultas 'ability'

faculty

 noun
     
fac‧ul‧ty plural faculties
1 [countable]SEC a department or group of related departments within a university
faculty of
the Faculty of Law
the Engineering Faculty
2SEC [uncountable and countable] American English all the teachers in a university:
Both faculty and students oppose the measures.
3 [countable usually plural] a natural ability, such as the ability to see, hear, or think clearly:
the patient's mental faculties
in full possession of all your faculties (=able to see, hear, think etc in the normal way)
faculty of
the faculty of sight
4 [countable] formal a particular skill that someone has
faculty for
She had a great faculty for absorbing information.
Definition of faculty from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
the topic COLLEGE

Explore COLLEGE Topic

AA academia academic(a) academic(n) academy alumni audit BA brother campus chair class college course credit dean diploma doctor don down extension faculty financial aid first class grad graduate(n) graduate(v) graduate(a) graduation Greek hall higher education MA major MBA MEd minor option oral PhD poly practical prof professor qualified quarter read rush(v) rush(n) school semester seminar senate senior spring break state university subject tech thesis third tutorial(n) tutorial(a) U. uni university vacation

Show all entries from Topic: COLLEGE


Other related topics

  
Word of the Day
The COLLEGE
Word of the Day is:
junior college