Institution

What do we mean by institution?

The act of instituting. noun

A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance in the life of a community or society. noun

One long associated with a specified place, position, or function. noun

An established organization or foundation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, or culture. noun

The building or buildings housing such an organization. noun

A place for the care of persons who are destitute, disabled, or mentally ill. noun

The act of instituting or setting up; establishment; effective ordination: as, the institution of laws or government; the institution of an inquiry. noun

Establishment in office; in ecclesiastical use, instatement in a spiritual charge; investment with the cure of souls. See installation. noun

Establishment in learning; instruction. noun

Established rule or order; a principle of procedure in any relation; custom; more specifically, an established habit of action, or body of related facts, regulating human conduct in the attainment of a social end, and constituting an element in the social organization or civilization of a community: as, government, the family, a language, is an institution. noun

An established custom or usage, or a characteristic. noun

An establishment for the promotion of some object; an organized society or body of persons, usually with a fixed place of assemblage and operation, devoted to a special pursuit or purpose: as, an educational institution; a charitable institution; the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. noun

A system of the elements or rules of any art or science; a treatise or text-book. noun

Eccles.: The origination of the eucharist, and enactment of its observance, by Christ. noun

The words used by Christ in instituting the eucharist, in the various forms as recorded in Scripture (Mat. xxvi. 26–28; Mark xiv. 22–24; Luke xxii. 19, 20; 1 Cor. xi. 23–25), or transmitted by tradition; in liturgics, the part of the prayer of consecration of the eucharistic elements in which these words are repeated. Also called more fully the commemoration, recital, or words of institution. noun

The act by which a bishop commits the cure of souls under himself in a parish within his diocese to a priest as rector or vicar. noun

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment. noun

Instruction; education. noun

A custom or practice of a society or community.

An organization similarly long established and respected, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.

The building or buildings which house such an organization.

Other places or businesses similarly long established and respected.

A person similarly long established in a place, position, or field.

The act of instituting something.

The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest.

That which institutes or instructs, particularly a textbook or system of elements or rules.

Words that are spelled similarly to institution:
institution, constitution, restitution, destitution, instinction, instigation, institutions, institutor, institutive, instituting, reinstitution, instituto, institutist.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word institution:
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Words that rhyme with institution:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe institution:
educational, social, financial, public, political, national, religious, important, divine, private, only, mental, peculiar, single, year, particular, central, academic, charitable, permanent, independent, international, ancient, legal, cultural, democratic, latter, correctional, powerful, penal, separate, unique, sacred, oldest, literary, largest, accredited, nonprofit, formal, excellent, venerable, key, useful, related, noble, dominant, autonomous, famous, ecclesiastical, governmental, representative, liberal, royal, imperial, regional, coeducational, psychiatric.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective institution:
building, based.

Words that sound like institution:
institution, institutions, incitation, instituting, constitution, instigation, institutional, instillation, restitution, installation, destitution, constatation, instinction, instauration, instituto, insultation, constitutions, insanitation, intuition, invitation, instruction, insition, institut, institutionally.