نطق كلمة faculty بالإنجليزية

"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."

"Special mental endowment; characteristic knack."

"Power; prerogative or attribute of office."

"Privilege or permission granted by favor or indulgence to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation."

"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."

"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."