institution
Nouns
- (n) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose establishment,
- (n) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
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(n) 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
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(n) 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
- (n) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, asylum,