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English noun: institution | |||
| 1. | institution (group) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | ||
| Synonyms | establishment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organisation, organization | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | academy, charity, company, educational institution, faith, financial institution, financial organisation, financial organization, honorary society, issuer, medical institution, organized religion, religion, vicariate, vicarship | ||
| 2. | institution (artifact) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | establishment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | home, nursing home, orphanage, orphans' asylum, penal facility, penal institution, rest home | ||
| 3. | institution (cognition) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | ||
| Samples | The institution of marriage. The institution of slavery. He had become an institution in the theater. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | custom, tradition | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | levirate | ||
| 4. | institution (act) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | ||
| Samples | She looked forward to her initiation as an adult. The foundation of a new scientific society. | ||
| Synonyms | creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beginning, commencement, start | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | authorship, paternity | ||
| 5. | institution (artifact) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | ||
| Synonyms | asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | hospital, infirmary | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit | ||
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