faculty applies to an innate or less often acquired ability for a particular accomplishment or function.

FACULTY definition: an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action. See examples of faculty used in a sentence.

(Definition of faculty from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

members of a particular profession regarded as a body; a group of persons entrusted with the government and tuition in a college or university. Examples: faculty of advocates, 1711; of physicians …

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

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Jan 14, 2026 · faculty (plural faculties) (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.

noun A body of persons on whom are conferred specific professional powers; all the authorized members of a learned profession collectively, or a body associated or acting together in a particular …

FACULTY meaning: 1 : the group of teachers in a school or college often used before another noun; 2 : faculty members or teachers

Faculty comes from the Old French word faculté, which means “skill, accomplishment, or learning.” You may have great faculties of memory, sight, mobility, charm, math, and musicality, but, as Beethoven …