What does "facility" mean?
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
Facility
/fəˈsɪlɪti/ noun
noun ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
- Grammar: facility is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: installation, readiness, abandon, ability.
- Useful contrasts: functional impairment, hard, arduousness.
- Usage evidence: Meg has a facility for languages.
How to use "facility"
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Meaning check
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Source and review context
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. countable, uncountable
"Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour."
- 2 a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you wordnet
- 3 A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation. countable, uncountable
- 4 something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service wordnet
- 5 The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity. countable, uncountable
"Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?"
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- 6 a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry wordnet
- 7 Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. countable, uncountable
"The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled."
- 8 a natural effortlessness wordnet
- 9 Clipping of credit facility. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
- 10 skillful performance or ability without difficulty wordnet
- 11 A toilet. Canada, US, countable, in-plural, uncountable
- 12 A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest. countable, uncountable
- 13 Affability. countable, dated, uncountable
Antonyms
Example
"Meg has a facility for languages."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "facility"?
Common synonyms include: installation, readiness, abandon, ability, ableness, accommodation.
How do you use "facility" in a sentence?
Meg has a facility for languages.
How do you pronounce "facility"?
Pronounced /fəˈsɪlɪti/.
Etymology
From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.