noun (n)

• one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  mental faculty, module
  

  source: wordnet30
• the body of teachers and administrators at a school(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  staff
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913