FACULTY


Meaning of FACULTY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fæk(ə)lti ]

( faculties)

1.

Your faculties are your physical and mental abilities.

He was drunk and not in control of his faculties...

It is also a myth that the faculty of hearing is greatly increased in blind people.

N-COUNT : usu pl , oft poss N , N of n

2.

A faculty is a group of related departments in some universities, or the people who work in them. ( BRIT )

...the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

N-VAR

3.

A faculty is all the teaching staff of a university or college, or of one department. ( AM )

The faculty agreed on a change in the requirements...

How can faculty improve their teaching so as to encourage creativity?

...eminent Stanford faculty members.

N-VAR : oft N n

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