faculty

faculté

Partie d’une université consacrée à l’enseignement et à la recherche dans une discipline ou plusieurs disciplines liées.

En anglais simple : A part of a university that teaches and studies one subject or a group of related subjects.

• He entered the faculty of medicine.
• The university has six faculties.
• Our faculty offers courses in several languages.

Comment l'utiliser : faculty of something (She teaches in the faculty of law.)

Expressions courantes : faculty of medicine, faculty of science, arts faculty

corps enseignant

Ensemble des enseignants et chercheurs qui travaillent dans une école ou un établissement d’enseignement supérieur.

En anglais simple : The teachers and researchers who work at a college, university, or school.

• The faculty met on Monday.
• She joined the faculty last year.
• Students and faculty attended the lecture.

Synonymes : academic staff, teaching staff

Expressions courantes : faculty members, faculty meeting, join the faculty

faculté, capacité

Aptitude naturelle à penser, percevoir, comprendre ou faire quelque chose.

En anglais simple : A natural ability to think, sense, understand, or do something.

• Her mental faculties remain sharp.
• The illness affected his faculty of speech.
• He has an impressive faculty for remembering faces.

Comment l'utiliser : faculty of something (He gradually lost the faculty of speech.)

Synonymes : ability, capacity, power

Expressions courantes : mental faculty, faculty of something, reasoning faculty