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Facility has 6 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry

"the assembly plant is an enormous facility"

2

skillful performance or ability without difficulty

"his quick adeptness was a product of good design"

"he was famous for his facility as an archer"

3

a natural effortlessness

"they conversed with great facility"

"a happy readiness of conversation"

4

something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service

"catering facilities"

"toilet facilities"

"educational facilities"

5

a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you

"a cell phone with internet facility"

6

The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.

"The facility with which he solved the complex math problem amazed everyone in the class."

In plain English: A facility is a building or place designed for a specific purpose, like a gym or a hospital.

"The new sports facility includes a large swimming pool and gymnasium."

Usage: Use "facility" to describe natural aptitude or ease in performing a skill, such as having facility with languages. It refers to the quality of doing something effortlessly rather than referring to a physical building or place.

Example Sentences
"The new sports facility includes a large swimming pool and gymnasium." noun
"The new sports facility opened last week for everyone to use." noun
"She visited the medical facility to get her annual checkup." noun
"Our office has excellent facilities for holding large meetings." noun
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
artifact skillfulness effortlessness service
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
airfield arboretum athletic facility backroom cafeteria facility communication system course depository drive-in forum gas system menagerie military installation power system range recreational facility sewage system source station transportation system utility water system touch dexterity public toilet

Origin

The word facility entered English via the Middle French facilité, which itself came from the Latin facilitās. While it is a doublet of "faculty," both terms ultimately stem from the same Latin root meaning ease or capability.

Rhyming Words
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