facultyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæ.kəl.ti/

名詞

faculty (複数形 faculties)

1. (chiefly US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
2. A division of a university.

   She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.

3. Often in the plural: an ability, power, or skill.

   He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.

   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, scene ii:

     What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!

     how infinite in faculty!

   • 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], OCLC 752990886, pages 169–170:

     The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.

   • 1974, Thomas S[tephen] Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 201:

     I have used the notion of games so far as if it were familiar to most people. I think this is justified as everyone knows how to play some games. Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena. Yet the ability to follow rules, play games, and construct new games is a faculty not equally shared by all persons.

4. An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
5. (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
6. The members of a profession.

使用する際の注意点

In the sense of academic staff at a university, academic staff, teaching staff or simply staff are preferred in British English.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:faculty

関連する語

• facultative