faculty

Etymology
From, from , from , another form of , from , another form of ; see. .

Noun

 * 1)  The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
 * 2) A division of a university.
 * : an ability, power, or skill.
 * 1) * 1624,, , Meditation XVIII., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 442-444:
 * If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]
 * 1) An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
 * 2)  A licence to make alterations to a church.
 * 3) The members of a profession.
 * 1) An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
 * 2)  A licence to make alterations to a church.
 * 3) The members of a profession.
 * 1) An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
 * 2)  A licence to make alterations to a church.
 * 3) The members of a profession.
 * 1) The members of a profession.

Usage notes
In the sense of academic staff at a university, academic staff, teaching staff or simply are preferred in British English.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:faculty

Translations

 * Finnish: opetushenkilökunta
 * German:, Lehrpersonal
 * Japanese: 教授会
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fakultet
 * Nynorsk: fakultet
 * Portuguese: corpo docente
 * Russian: профе́ссорско-преподава́тельский соста́в,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: nastavničko osoblje
 * Spanish: cuerpo docente
 * Swedish:, lärarkollegium
 * Tagalog: kaguro
 * Ukrainian: професу́ра, профе́сорсько-виклада́цький склад


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: факультэ́т, аддзе́л
 * Bulgarian:
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fakultet
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
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 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: дацң
 * Kazakh: факультет
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Macedonian: факулте́т
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fakultet
 * Nynorsk: fakultet
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: факу̀лте̄т
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:, oddelenie
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kaguruan
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: факульте́т, відді́л


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto: kapablo
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: способност, вештина
 * Maori: parapara, mauri tangata
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ceudfath
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: зді́бність, дар