Found 4 items, similar to Faculties.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: faculty fakultas
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: faculty fakultas, kecakapan, kemampuan, pancaindra
English → English (WordNet) Definition: faculty faculty n 1: one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind [syn: mental faculty, module] 2: the body of teachers and administrators at a school; “the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university” [syn: staff]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Faculties Faculty \Fac"ul*ty\, n.; pl. Faculties. [F. facult?, L. facultas, fr. facilis easy (cf. facul easily), fr. fecere to make. See Fact, and cf. Facility.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief. --Milton. [1913 Webster] What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack. [1913 Webster] He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 3. Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [R.] [1913 Webster] This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation. [1913 Webster] The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] 5. 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, etc. [1913 Webster] 6. (Amer. Colleges) 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. [1913 Webster] Dean of faculty. See under Dean. Faculty of advocates. (Scot.) See under Advocate. Syn: Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness; cleverness; readiness; ability; knack. [1913 Webster]