facultad

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faculty

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facultad
feminine noun
1 faculty (capacidad)
  • facultades (mentales) -> (mental) faculties
  • está empezando a perder facultades -> his mind is beginning to go
2 faculty (universitaria)
  • facultad de Filosofía y Letras -> Arts Faculty, Faculty of Arts
3 power, right (poder)
4 property (propiedad)
  • tiene la facultad de ablandar la madera -> it has the property of softening wood

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facultad [fah-cool-tahd']
noun
1 Faculty, power of doing something. (f)
2 Faculty, privilege, authority, right to do anything (autoridad). (f)
  • Tener la facultad de -> to have the power to
3 Science, art. (f)
4 Faculty, in a university, denotes the body of the professors teaching a science. (f)
5 Faculty, the power of performing an action, natural, vital, or animal (de mente). (Medical) (f)
  • Facultades metales -> mental powers
6 License, permission. (f)
noun, plural
  • Facultades -> fortune, wealth, means of living
  • Facultades del alma -> powers of the mind
  • Facultad mayor -> in universities, divinity, civil and canonical law, or medicine

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facultad
sustantivo:femenino
1 (capacidad) faculty
está perdiendo la facultad del olfato
está perdiendo sus facultades she's losing her faculties; firmó el testamento en pleno uso de sus facultades he signed the will in full possession of his faculties
facultades mentales mental faculties; mental powers
actuó con sus facultades mentales perturbadas he was mentally disturbed when he did it
esto de cumplir años le hace a uno ir perdiendo facultades
2 (autoridad) power; authority
tener la facultad de hacer algo to have the power authority to do sth;o tener facultad para hacer algo to be authorized to do sth
3 (Univ) faculty
está en la facultad he's at the university; se han quedado a comer en la facultad they stayed to have lunch at the university
Facultad de Derecho Faculty of Law
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Faculty of Arts

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