faculties
- 1Plural of faculty.
The blow to his head was severe, yet his faculties remained intact.
The university's various faculties each set their own admission standards.
Note
A regular plural, with the y of faculty becoming -ies. The plural fits the countable senses naturally: powers of mind or body taken together (his faculties remained intact) and the separate divisions of a university. In the US, Canada and the Philippines, faculty also names a school's teaching staff as one collective body. In that sense, faculties means the staffs of several institutions, not several teachers.
faculties is a form of faculty
faculty, noun: The academic staff at a school, college, university, or nonprofit research institute, as distinct from the students or support staff. Full entry
- Forms
- facultyfaculties plural
- Spelling
- faculty → faculties: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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