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Lecturer and Faculty Definitions

Lecturer

One who delivers lectures, especially professionally.

Faculty

An inherent power or ability
The faculty of speech.

Lecturer

A member of the faculty of a college or university usually having qualified status without rank or tenure.

Faculty

A talent or natural ability for something
Has a wonderful faculty for storytelling.

Lecturer

A faculty member ranking below an assistant professor.

Faculty

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The teachers and instructors of a school or college, or of one of its divisions, especially those considered permanent, full-time employees.
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Lecturer

The academic rank held by such a faculty member.

Faculty

One of the divisions of a college or university
The faculty of law.

Lecturer

Chiefly British A university teacher, especially one ranking next below a reader.

Faculty

All of the members of a learned profession
The medical faculty.

Lecturer

A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.

Faculty

Authorization granted by authority; conferred power.
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Lecturer

A member of a university or college below the rank of assistant professor or reader.

Faculty

(Archaic) An occupation; a trade.

Lecturer

(dated) A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures) in the afternoons and evenings.

Faculty

The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.

Lecturer

One who lectures; an assistant preacher.

Faculty

A division of a university.
She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.
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Lecturer

A public lecturer at certain universities

Faculty

(Often in the plural): an ability, power, or skill.
He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.

Lecturer

Someone who lectures professionally

Faculty

An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.

Faculty

(Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.

Faculty

The members of a profession.

Faculty

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.
But know that in the soulAre many lesser faculties that serveReason as chief.
What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty !

Faculty

Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.

Faculty

Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
This DuncanHath borne his faculties so meek.

Faculty

Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise.
It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges.

Faculty

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.

Faculty

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.

Faculty

One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

Faculty

The body of teachers and administrators at a school;
The dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university

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