'Institution' definitions:
Definition of 'institution'
From: WordNet
noun
An organization founded and united for a specific purpose [syn: institution, establishment]
noun
An establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
noun
A custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater"
noun
The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" [syn: initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration]
noun
A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person [syn: mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum]
Definition of 'Institution'
From: GCIDE
- Institution \In`sti*tu"tion\, n. [L. institutio: cf. F. institution.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. [1913 Webster]
- The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. --Hooker. (b) Instruction; education. [Obs.] --Bentley. (c) (Eccl. Law) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which instituted or established; as: (a) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity. [1913 Webster]
- The nature of our people, Our city's institutions. --Shak. (b) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution. (c) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits. [1913 Webster]
- We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, . . . being an institution of physic. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'institution'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- A,
- academy,
- act,
- agency,
- alpha,
- apostolic orders,
- appointment,
- asylum,
- atelier,
- barbershop,
- beauty parlor,
- beauty shop,
- beginning,
- bench,
- bill,
- blast-off,
- butcher shop,
- bylaw,
- calling,
- canon,
- canonization,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- college,
- commencement,
- company,
- concern,
- conferment,
- consecration,
- constitution,
- corporation,
- creation,
- custom,
- cutting edge,
- dawn,
- decree,
- desk,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- doctrine,
- dogma,
- duty,
- edge,
- edict,
- effectuation,
- election,
- enactment,
- establishing,
- establishment,
- facility,
- firm,
- fixture,
- flying start,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formality,
- formation,
- forming,
- formula,
- formulary,
- foundation,
- founding,
- fresh start,
- function,
- habit,
- holy orders,
- holy rite,
- home,
- hospital,
- house,
- inauguration,
- inception,
- induction,
- installation,
- institute,
- introduction,
- investiture,
- jump-off,
- jus,
- kick-off,
- law,
- leading edge,
- legislation,
- lex,
- liturgy,
- loft,
- major orders,
- materialization,
- measure,
- minor orders,
- mode of worship,
- mystery,
- new departure,
- nomination,
- observance,
- office,
- oncoming,
- onset,
- opening,
- ordainment,
- order of worship,
- orders,
- ordinance,
- ordination,
- ordonnance,
- organization,
- origin,
- origination,
- outbreak,
- outset,
- parlor,
- practice,
- preferment,
- prescribed form,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- presentation,
- reading in,
- realization,
- regulation,
- rite,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- rituality,
- routine,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- running start,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- school,
- send-off,
- service,
- setting in motion,
- setting-up,
- shop,
- solemnity,
- square one,
- standing order,
- start,
- start-off,
- starting point,
- statute,
- studio,
- sweatshop,
- take-off,
- tradition,
- university,
- work site,
- work space,
- workbench,
- workhouse,
- working space,
- workplace,
- workroom,
- workshop,
- worktable
Words containing 'Institution'
- Institute,
- Instituted,
- Instituter,
- Instituting,
- Institutional,
- Institutive,
- Institutively,
- institutionally,
- Institutes of medicine,
- correctional institution,
- educational institution,
- financial institution,
- lending institution,
- medical institution,
- mental institution,
- penal institution,
- polytechnic institute,
- thrift institution,
- depository financial institution,
- massachusetts institute of technology,
- national institute of justice,
- national institutes of health,
- nondepository financial institution,
- national institute of standards and technology