Academic / B1

FAKLT-ee/ˈfæklti/

A faculty is a university department group: the faculty of law; faculty members. It also means a natural ability (a faculty for languages). Department is everyday for one subject office; school can be a faculty in some UK universities. Do not call a secondary-school department a faculty. In the US, faculty often means the teaching staff as a group.

Meaning

A department in a university; also a natural ability (a faculty for languages).

Examples

• “She applied to the faculty of education after her PGCE.”
• “He has a faculty for languages, which is the ability sense.”

Good to know

the faculty of + subject; faculty members. Ability: a faculty for. Everyday: department. US: faculty = teaching staff.

Near in meaning

department

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