faculty
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
faculty/ˈfaklti/
▶noun (pl. faculties)
- 1 an inherent mental or physical power.
■ an aptitude or talent.
- 2 a group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge.
■ N. Amer. the teaching or research staff of a university or college.
- 3 an authorization or licence from a Church authority.
– origin ME: from OFr. faculte, from L. facultas, from facilis ‘easy’, from facere ‘make, do’.
'faculty' also found in these Oxford entries:
acute
- antenna
- attention
- bump
- capability
- clairaudience
- clairvoyance
- dean
- doctorate
- Doctor of Philosophy
- exercise
- extrasensory perception
- facultative
- fancy
- fantasy
- fine
- gustation
- hearing
- imagination
- intellect
- keen
- memory
- mind
- mute
- prajna
- prophecy
- reality testing
- recall
- recollection
- scent
- school
- sense
- sight
- site
- sixth sense
- smell
- taste
- third eye
- touch
- vision
- volition
- will
- X-ray
