HOW TO PRONOUNCE
faculty
/ˈfæk.əl.ti/
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What does faculty mean?
noun
- The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- A division of a university.
- An ability, power, or skill.
More meanings (3)
noun
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- A licence to make alterations to a church.
- The members of a profession.
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IPA pronunciation
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It is inexplicable, this, except that never was there a man more devoid of the faculty of self-exploitation, self-advertising, than Russell Conwell.
Probably the cleverest of her trappers is a Mexican who has a faculty of catching these dangerous creatures with his bare hands.
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The idea evoked may then become the nucleus of a sort of crystallisation which invades the understanding and paralyses all critical faculty.
But the faculty of articulate speech comes in, enabling us to form the crude elements of reason and inference into a code.
Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning.