3. institution a place for the care or confinement of people, as mental patients.
4. institution a well-established and structured pattern of behavior or of relationships that is accepted as a fundamentalpart of a culture: the institution of marriage.
5. institution any established law, custom, etc.
6. institution any familiar, long-established person, thing, or practice; fixture.
3. (noun)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"
4. (noun)initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration 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"
5. (noun)mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
1. (noun)institution an important educational or business organization leading financial institutions
2. institution a tradition or way of living that has existed for a long time the institution of marriage
3. institution the act of starting sth the institution of new rules
4. institution an unpleasant place where people who havemedical or mental problems live a mental institution
Definition of 'Institution'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Institution the act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school
2. (noun)Institution instruction; education
3. (noun)Institution 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
4. (noun)Institution that which instituted or established
5. (noun)Institution established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity
6. (noun)Institution 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
7. (noun)Institution anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits
8. (noun)Institution that which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute
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