Facility Meaning
/fəˈsɪlɪti/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
nounA building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
Sentence Examples
Meg has a facility for languages.
Littering in this facility is subject to a maximum fine of $500.
He can speak both Japanese and English with facility.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She has a remarkable ____ for learning foreign languages quickly.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city recently built a new research ____ to help local scientists develop new technologies.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities."
— 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
"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?"
— 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
"Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph."
— 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She has a remarkable ____ for learning foreign languages quickly.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city recently built a new research ____ to help local scientists develop new technologies.