Departmentnoun
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Departmentnoun
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
Departmentnoun
A subdivision of an organization.
Departmentnoun
One of the principal divisions of executive government
Departmentnoun
One of the divisions of instructions
Departmentnoun
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes. In France, a department is smaller than a region
Departmentnoun
(historical) A military subdivision of a country
Departmentnoun
(obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
Departmentnoun
Act of departing; departure.
Departmentnoun
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Departmentnoun
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
Departmentnoun
Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
Departmentnoun
A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
Departmentnoun
A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Departmentnoun
a specialized division of a large organization;
Departmentnoun
the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
Departmentnoun
a specialized sphere of knowledge;
Departmentnoun
a division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity
Departmentnoun
an administrative district in France and other countries
Departmentnoun
an area of special expertise or responsibility
Departmentnoun
a specified aspect or quality
Facultynoun
The academic staff at schools, colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
Facultynoun
A division of a university.
Facultynoun
An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
Facultynoun
A power, authority or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
Facultynoun
(Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
Facultynoun
The members of a profession.
Facultynoun
Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
Facultynoun
Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
Facultynoun
Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
Facultynoun
Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
Facultynoun
A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, etc.
Facultynoun
The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
Facultynoun
one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Facultynoun
the body of teachers and administrators at a school;
Facultynoun
an inherent mental or physical power
Facultynoun
an aptitude for doing something
Facultynoun
a group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge
Facultynoun
the teaching or research staff of a group of university departments viewed as a body
Facultynoun
the members of a particular profession, especially medicine, considered collectively.
Facultynoun
a licence or authorization from a Church authority