faculty

faculty is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
2. noun. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
3. noun. Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
4. noun. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
5. noun. A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.
6. noun. The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
7. noun. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

   Synonyms: module

8. noun. the body of teachers and administrators at a school

   "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"

   Synonyms: staff

Synonyms

module, staff

Common word forms

facultied, faculties

Words from these letters

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