institution
Meaning of institution
noun
- an organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose.
an academic institution
a certificate from a professional institution
- an established law or practice.
the institution of marriage
- the action of instituting something.
a delay in the institution of proceedings
late Middle English (in institution (sense 2, sense 3)): via Old French from Latin institutio(n- ), from the verb instituere (see institute). institution (sense 1) dates from the early 18th century.
Information about institution
- It is a name.
- The plural form of institution is: institutions.
- Languages in which institution is used:
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Hyphenation of institution
in-sti-tu-tion
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- institution is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
institution synonyms
Meaning establishment:
Meaning initiation:
initiation, founding, foundation, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration
Meaning mental hospital:
Meaning an organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department:
Meaning an organization having a particular purpose, especially one that is involved with science, education, or a specific profession:
Meaning the point that is equally distant from every point on the circumference of a circle or sphere:
Meaning a place of study or training in a special field:
Meaning an institution for educating children:
Meaning an organized group of professional people with particular aims, duties, and privileges:
Meaning a high-level educational institution in which students study for degrees and academic research is done:
Meaning a room with a glass roof and walls, attached to a house at one side and used as a sun lounge or for growing delicate plants:
Meaning a training college for priests or rabbis:
Meaning an organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity:
Meaning (often in names) a group of people organized for a joint purpose:
Meaning a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs:
Meaning a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together:
Meaning a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre):
Meaning friendly association, especially with people who share one's interests:
Meaning the physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal:
Meaning a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for mutual protection or cooperation:
Meaning the action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context:
Meaning a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations:
Meaning a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power:
Meaning an association, typically of several companies:
Meaning anxiety; worry:
Meaning a large company or group of companies authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law:
Meaning the customary, habitual, or expected procedure or way of doing of something:
Meaning a traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time:
Meaning a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question:
Meaning a thing that is known or proved to be true:
Meaning an established or official way of doing something:
Meaning a way in which something is usually done:
Meaning the action of using something or the fact of being used:
Meaning a long-established custom or belief that has been passed on from one generation to another:
Meaning a religious or other solemn ceremony or act:
Meaning a prescribed order for performing a ritual ceremony, especially one characteristic of a particular religion or Church:
Meaning a popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour:
Meaning the action of using something or the state of being used for a purpose:
Meaning a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up:
Meaning one's customary behaviour:
Meaning a particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one:
Meaning a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole:
Meaning a sequence of actions regularly followed:
Meaning a method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action:
Meaning a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual:
Meaning a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action:
Meaning a conception of or belief about something:
Meaning an abstract idea:
Meaning one of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct or procedure within a particular area of activity:
Meaning the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties:
Meaning practice, as distinguished from theory:
Meaning the action of installing someone or something, or the state of being installed:
Meaning the action or process of inducting someone to a post or organization:
Meaning the action of formally investing a person with honours or rank:
Meaning the beginning or introduction of a system, policy, or period:
Meaning the action of ordaining someone in holy orders:
Meaning the action of making or declaring something, typically a church, sacred:
Meaning smear or rub with oil, typically as part of a religious ceremony:
Meaning the ceremony of crowning a sovereign or a sovereign's consort:
Meaning forming the triumphant culmination of an effort or endeavour:
Meaning an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place:
Meaning an act or instance of launching something:
Meaning set (a boat) in motion by pushing it or allowing it to roll into the water:
Meaning the point in time or space at which something has its origin; the beginning:
Meaning begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space:
Meaning the point in time or space at which something begins:
Meaning the action or process of instigating an action or event:
Meaning the action or process of making something active or operative:
Meaning the action of causing a machine or device to operate:
Meaning all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively:
Meaning the beginning of something:
institution antonyms
Meaning the act of ordering or allowing someone to leave:
Meaning deprive (a person in holy orders) of ecclesiastical status:
Meaning slow and hesitant, especially through lack of confidence; faltering:
Meaning the action of cancelling something:
Meaning an end or final part of something:
Translation of institution
- Italian: ente, istituzione, organizzazione
- German: Anstalt
- Spanish: ente, institución, organismo
- French: institution
- Portuguese: entidade
Words that rhyme with institution
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