Definition of "faculty" []

• An inherent power or ability. (noun)
• Any of the powers or capacities possessed by the human mind. See Synonyms at ability. (noun)
• The ability to perform or act. (noun)
• Any of the divisions or comprehensive branches of learning at a college or university: the faculty of law. (noun)
• The teachers and instructors within such a division. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term faculty was used at first to designate a specific field of knowledge; but in 1255 we find the Masters at Paris using the term in the modern meaning of"
• "The first taught the legal and business aspects of running a dispensary and, because the faculty is active in the cannabusiness, emphasized such practical concerns as not getting robbed (keep your stash in a gun safe) and not getting busted (exude good corporate citizenship — incorporate, pay your taxes, join the Chamber of Commerce; Duncan won over suspicious neighbors by cleaning up all the dog poop on the block)."
• "The health and safety head in our faculty is awesome, if a little over-enthusiastic."