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Webster 1913 Edition


Fac

Fac

(făk)
,
Noun.
[Abbrev. of
facsimile
.]
A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
Brande & C.

Definition 2024


fac

fac

See also: FAC and faç

English

Noun

fac (plural facs)

  1. A large ornamental letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
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Etymology 2

Clipping of faculty.

Noun

fac (plural facs)

  1. (colloquial) A faculty within a university.
    • 1973, Princeton Alumni Weekly (volume 74, page vii)
      Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack
      The whitest man in all the fac.
      Of Princeton spirit he does not lack
    • 2012, Jonathan Dennis, The good die and the bad live on (page 209)
      I had my essay on a memory stick so it just needed to be printed out in the Arts Fac; I'd intended to re-read it for sense but meeting Liv seemed more important.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • facu

Đ===Etymology=== From Latin faciō. Compare Romanian face, fac.

Verb

fac (third-person singular present indicative fatsi or fatse, second-person plural present indicative fãtsets, first-person singular imperfect fãtseam, past participle faptã)

  1. I do, make.

Derived terms

Related terms


French

Etymology

Clipping of faculté.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fak/

Noun

fac f (plural facs)

  1. (informal) university

Synonyms


Ladin

Noun

fac

  1. plural of fat

Latin

Verb

fac

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of faciō

Lojban

Rafsi

fac

  1. rafsi of fatci.

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fak]

Verb

fac

  1. first-person singular present tense form of face.
  2. first-person singular subjunctive form of face.
    Doresc să fac ceva.
    I want to do something.
  3. third-person plural present tense form of face.