facility

UK: /fəˈsɪlɪti/ US: /fəˈsɪlɪti/ ,(fə sil′i tē)

Inflections of 'facility' (n): npl: facilities

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

fa•cil•i•ty /fəˈsɪlɪti/   n., pl. -ties. 

1. • Often, facilities. [countable] something designed, built, or installed to provide a specific convenience or service:
     A new research facility.
   • Usually, facilities. [countable] something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.:
     We chose that hotel because of its facilities for conferences.
2. readiness or ease due to skill, aptitude, or practice;
   dexterity:
   [uncountable] Mozart composed music with great facility.
3. Informal Terms Usually, facilities. [plural] a rest room:
   There are no facilities on this highway.
4. lack of difficulty;
   ease:
   [uncountable] Modern stoves can be used with greater facility than the old, wood-burning types.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

fa•cil•i•ty  (fə sil′i tē), n., pl. -ties. 

1. Often, facilities. 
   • something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service:
     transportation facilities;
     educational facilities;
     a new research facility.
   • something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.:
     to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task; to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.
2. readiness or ease due to skill, aptitude, or practice;
   dexterity:
   to compose with great facility.
3. ready compliance:
   Her facility in organizing and directing made her an excellent supervisor.
4. an easy-flowing manner:
   facility of style.
5. the quality of being easily or conveniently done or performed.
6. Informal Terms Often, facilities. a rest room, esp. one for use by the public, as in a theater or restaurant.
7. freedom from difficulty, controversy, misunderstanding, etc.:
   facility of understanding.

• Latin facilitās. See facile, -ity
• Middle French)
• late Middle English facilite (1375–1425

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

facility / fəˈsɪlɪtɪ/ noun ( -ties)

1. ease of action or performance; freedom from difficulty
2. ready skill or ease deriving from practice or familiarity
3. (often plural) the means or equipment facilitating the performance of an action
4. easy-going disposition
5. (usually plural)
   a euphemistic word for lavatory

Etymology: 15th Century: from Latin facilitās, from facilis easy; see facile