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Antonyms for faculty
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fak-uhl-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæk əl ti |
Definition of faculty
Origin :- late 14c., "ability, means, resources," from Old French faculté (14c.) "skill, accomplishment, learning," and directly from Latin facultatem (nominative facultas) "power, ability, wealth," from *facli-tat-s, from facilis (see facile).
- Academic sense "branch of knowledge" probably was the earliest in English (attested in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.), on notion of "ability in knowledge." Originally each department was a faculty; the use in reference to the whole teaching staff of a college dates from 1767.
- noun ability, skill
- noun teachers in educational institution
- Miss Hilton, a member of the Overton faculty, would chaperon her.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- Hold your tongue, simpleton; it is not for you to control the decrees of the faculty.
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- Why resist, and refuse the glory of belonging to the faculty?
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- It is only to give the name of man's faculty to that power after which and by which it was fashioned.
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- At least, must not the faculty that finds precede the faculty that utters?
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- Which yet they do with so happy an impudence that oftentimes the civilians envy them that faculty.
- Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus
- I suppose the faculty of getting along with men is largely inherent.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- You will understand that my faculty of observing was unimpaired.
- Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
- I am sick and faint, and every faculty of life seems dead within me.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
Synonyms for faculty
- academics
- adroitness
- advisers
- aptitude
- aptness
- bent
- body
- capability
- capacity
- cleverness
- clinic
- college
- corps
- department
- dexterity
- employees
- facility
- flair
- forte
- genius
- gift
- instinct
- institute
- instructors
- intelligence
- knack
- knowing way around
- leaning
- lecturers
- literati
- mentors
- nose
- organization
- peculiarity
- pedagogues
- penchant
- personnel
- pistol
- power
- predilection
- proclivity
- professorate
- professors
- profs
- propensity
- property
- quality
- readiness
- reason
- researchers
- right stuff
- scholars
- sense
- society
- staff
- strength
- talent
- turn
- tutors
- university
- what it takes
- wits
- workers
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