DICTOMETER

INSTITUTION

(institution, institución, institusjon)

1. Synonyms:
   • Institution
   • Establishment
   Definitions:
   • an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Institution
   Definitions:
   • an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Institution
   Definitions:
   • a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
   Examples:
   • The institution of marriage
   • The institution of slavery
   • He had become an institution in the theater
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Initiation
   • Founding
   • Foundation
   • Institution
   • Origination
   • Creation
   • Innovation
   • Introduction
   • Instauration
   Definitions:
   • the act of starting something for the first time
   • introducing something new
   Examples:
   • She looked forward to her initiation as an adult
   • The foundation of a new scientific society
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Mental hospital
   • Psychiatric hospital
   • Mental institution
   • Institution
   • Mental home
   • Insane asylum
   • Asylum
   Definitions:
   • a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person