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say it: fuh-SIL-i-tee
facility is a noun meaning "a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry". It is pronounced /fəˈsɪlɪti/ — fuh-SIL-i-tee. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
“the assembly plant is an enormous facility”
skillful performance or ability without difficulty
“his quick adeptness was a product of good design”
“he was famous for his facility as an archer”
a natural effortlessness
“they conversed with great facility”
“a happy readiness of conversation”
something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service
“catering facilities”
“toilet facilities”
“educational facilities”
a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
“a cell phone with internet facility”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for facility come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.