facility

Equipment, rooms, or services provided so people can do particular activities.

• The hotel has excellent cooking facilities.
• Parking facilities are available nearby.
• Our school needs better sports facilities.

Similar words: amenities

Common phrases: sports facility, parking facility, cooking facility

A building or place used for a particular activity, such as medical care or making products.

• They built a new medical facility.
• The research facility employs two hundred people.
• Several production facilities closed last year.

Similar words: center, establishment

Common phrases: medical facility, research facility, production facility

A toilet or bathroom, usually referred to politely in the plural.

• Where are the facilities?
• You may use the facilities downstairs.
• The restaurant’s facilities were clean.

Similar words: toilets, restrooms

Common phrases: use the facilities, toilet facility

An ability to do or learn something easily and well.

• She has a facility for languages.
• His facility with numbers impressed us.
• The young musician played with remarkable facility.

How to use it: facility for something/doing something (She has a facility for learning languages.); facility with something (He showed great facility with numbers.)

Similar words: aptitude, skill, talent

Common phrases: facility for languages, natural facility, remarkable facility, facility of expression