institution
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)institutions
- an organization founded and united for a specific purposeSynonyms: establishmentType of organization, organisationKinds company, religion, educational institution, academy, issuer, vicariate, charity, financial institution, medical institution
- an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situatedType of establishmentKinds home, orphanage, penal institution
- 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”Type of custom, traditionKinds levirate
- 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”Synonyms: initiationfoundingfoundationoriginationcreationinnovationintroductioninstaurationType of beginning, startKinds authorship, paternity
- a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced personSynonyms: mental hospitalpsychiatric hospitalmental institutionmental homeinsane asylumasylumType of hospital, infirmaryKinds Bedlam, booby hatch
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Translations
Noun established organisation
- Spanish
- institución
- French
- institution
- German
- Institution
- Italian
- istituzione
- Portuguese
- instituição
- Turkish
- kurum
- Russian
- учрежде́ние učreždénije
- Arabic
- مُؤَسَّسَة muʔassasa
- Chinese
- 机构 jīgòu
- Japanese
- 機関 kikan
23 more languages
- Dutch
- instelling
- Polish
- instytucja
- Swedish
- institution
- Greek
- ίδρυμα ídryma
- Korean
- 기관 gigwan
- Indonesian
- institusi
- Vietnamese
- cơ quan
- Hungarian
- intézmény
- Portuguese (PT)
- instituição
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 機關 jīguān
- Albanian
- institucion
- Catalan
- institució
- Czech
- instituce
- Danish
- institution
- Esperanto
- institucio
- Finnish
- laitos
- Icelandic
- stofnun
- Latvian
- iestāde
- Norwegian
- institusjon
- Romanian
- instituție
- Scottish Gaelic
- stèidheachadh
- Swahili
- taasisi
- Welsh
- sefydliad
Noun custom or practice of a society or community
- German
- Institution
- Russian
- институ́т institút
- Chinese
- 制度 zhìdù
- Japanese
- 制度 seido
- Polish
- instytucja
- Greek
- θεσμός thesmós
- Korean
- 제도 jedo
- Vietnamese
- thể chế
- Hungarian
- intézmény
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 制度 zhìdù
5 more languages
- Catalan
- institució
- Czech
- instituce
- Danish
- institution
- Finnish
- instituutio
- Icelandic
- stofnun
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. institutio: cf. F. institution.
1. The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction.— Richard Hooker
(b) Instruction; education. obsolete Richard 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, Sir William
2. That which instituted or established; as: (a) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
The nature of our people, Our city's institutions.— William Shakespeare
(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.
We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return.— Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute. obsolete
There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old,... being an institution of physic.— John Evelyn
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54