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institution

noun

1 institution

An organization founded and united for a specific purpose.

synonym: establishment.

Roget 542: school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyceum; institute, institution; palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar.    ... show more

Roget 712: party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band.    horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, etc. ... show more

Roget 963: legality; legitimacy, legitimateness.    legislature; law, code, corpus juris [Lat.], constitution, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule; canon ... show more

Roget 995: church, churchdom; ministry, apostleship, priesthood, prelacy, hierarch, church government, christendom, pale of the church.    clericalism, sacerdotalism, episcopalianism, ... show more

Dutch: instelling, instituut
Polish: instytucja

2 institution

An establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated.

Polish: placówka

3 institution

A custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society.

4 institution

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new.

synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination.

Dutch: inleiding, creatie, formatie, grondvesting, introductie, stichting, vorming
Polish: inicjacja

5 institution

A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person.

synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital.

Dutch: psychiatrische instelling
Polish: dom obłąkanych, szpital psychiatryczny, wariatkowo, dom wariatów


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 ... show more.

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