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Student vs Faculty - What's the difference?

student | faculty |

As nouns the difference between student and faculty

is that student is a person who studies a particular academic subject while faculty is the scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.

student

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who studies a particular academic subject.
  • A student of philosophy.
  • (figuratively) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not.
  • He is a student of life.
  • A person enrolled at a university.
  • The students were out raising funds for rag week.
  • (chiefly, North America) A schoolchild.
  • Synonyms

    * (person who studies a particular subject) scholar * (person seriously devoted to some subject) devotee * (schoolchild) pupil, schoolchild * disciple

    Antonyms

    * teacher

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    faculty

    English

    Noun

    (faculties)
  • The scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
  • A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
  • An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
  • * '>citation
  • I have used the notion of games so far as if it were familiar to most people. I think this is justified as everyone knows how to play some games. Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena. Yet the ability to follow rules, play games, and construct new games is a faculty not equally shared by all persons. [...]
    He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.

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