Faculty

Definition of faculty:

part of speech: noun

Power of the mind; ability; professors of a college; members of a profession.

part of speech: noun

Facility or power to act; an original power of the mind; personal quality or endowment; right, authority, or privilege to act; license; a body of men to whom any privilege is granted; the professors constituting a department in a university; the members of a profession.

Usage examples for faculty:

• I am afraid I have not the faculty for keeping money, and I might have spent it to worse purpose." "Janet's Love and Service", Margaret M Robertson.

• Do the faculty know of this? "Walter Sherwood's Probation", Horatio Alger.

• At the door Dr. Kramer paused and said, " I'm entertaining two or three of the university faculty this evening, Edward. "The Instant of Now", Irving E. Cox, Jr..

• If he has not the faculty of remembering these things in their order and of calling them up one after another in his mind, then let him write them down as they come to him upon a piece of paper. "On Something", H. Belloc.