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faculty
What does faculty mean?
faculty (noun): the body of teachers and administrators at a school.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce faculty?
/ˈfækəlti/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does faculty come from?
From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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