faculty
IPA: fˈækʌɫti
noun
- (chiefly US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- A division of a university.
- (Often in the plural): an ability, power, or skill.
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
- The members of a profession.
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Examples of "faculty" in Sentences
- The faculty refused the demands.
- The faculty was dissolved with the foundation.
- One of the hallmarks of the faculty is their faith.
- The Criminology Institute is a part of the Faculty.
- The screening is supervised by the faculty adviser.
- The faculty at the school are renown in their fields.
- He was the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux.
- Firmness is a faculty from the discipline of Phrenology.
- He is the dean of the faculty of orthodontics of this hospital.
- Benevolence is a faculty in the discredited theory of Phrenology.
- The health and safety head in our faculty is awesome, if a little over-enthusiastic.
- The term faculty was used at first to designate a specific field of knowledge; but in 1255 we find the Masters at Paris using the term in the modern meaning of
- Carlyle, in the first of his two essays on Richter (1827), expressly distinguishes true humour from irony, which he describes as a faculty of caricature, consisting "chiefly in a certain superficial distortion or reversal of objects" -- the method of
- His extramarital love affairs seem to have been Platonic; and although he once spoke of the “brutal sensuality”which “leads me so close to the greatest sins,” he placed what he called his faculty for “depraved fantasy” in the servicenot of love but of power.
- The first taught the legal and business aspects of running a dispensary and, because the faculty is active in the cannabusiness, emphasized such practical concerns as not getting robbed (keep your stash in a gun safe) and not getting busted (exude good corporate citizenship — incorporate, pay your taxes, join the Chamber of Commerce; Duncan won over suspicious neighbors by cleaning up all the dog poop on the block).
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