Meaning of Faculty

English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Faculty

1. 1
   n.

   Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

2. 2
   n.

   Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

3. 3
   n.

   Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

4. 4
   n.

   Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

5. 5
   n.

   A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.

6. 6
   n.

   The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.

7. 7
   n.

   Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

8. 8
   n.

   Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

9. 9
   n.

   Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

10. 10
    n.

    Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

11. 11
    n.

    A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.

12. 12
    n.

    The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.