Definition of
Facility
- (noun, act) a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
- (noun, act) something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service
toilet facilities
educational facilities - (noun, artifact) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
- (noun, attribute) a natural effortlessness
a happy readiness of conversation - (noun, cognition) skillful performance or ability without difficulty
he was famous for his facility as an archer
via WordNet, Princeton University
Synonyms of Facility
adeptness, adroitness, deftness, installation, quickness, readiness
Alternate forms of Facility
Derivations: facile
Hyponyms: airfield, arboretum, assembly, athletic facility, backroom, botanical garden, cafeteria facility, comfort station, communication equipment, communication system, convenience, course, deposit, depositary, depository, dexterity, drive-in, field, flying field, forum, gas system, grid, landing field, manual dexterity, meeting place, menagerie, military installation, power grid, power system, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, range, recreation facility, recreational facility, repository, restroom, sewage system, sewage works, sewer system, sleight, source, station, toilet facility, touch, transit, transportation, transportation system, utility, wash room, water, water supply, water system, zoo, zoological garden
Hypernyms: artefact, artifact, effortlessness, service, skillfulness
Origin of the word Facility
- early 15c., from M.Fr. facilit?, from L. facilitatem, from facilis "easy" (see facile). Its sense in English moved from "genteelness" to "opportunity" (1510s), to "aptitude, ease" (1530s). Meaning "place for doing something," which makes the word so beloved of journalists and fuzzy writers, first recorded 1872. more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Facility
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