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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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