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 or universities, 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. An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
   • 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness‎^[1], →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. […]

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

4. A power, authority 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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:faculty

関連する語

• facultative

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.

Further reading

• faculty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• faculty in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911