Synonyms:
institution, establishment
Meaning: an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
Synonyms:
institution
Meaning: an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
Synonyms:
institution
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
For such an institution makes a very important part of the history of mankind.
Having selected an educational institution, the next requisite is a suitable equipment.
But this quasi-toleration of the institution was not enough for the advocates of slavery.
This home, like many another benevolent institution in those times, was badly administered.
The influence of this institution upon British manufactures has been in many branches revolutionary.
To Madam Page society represented more than the church or any other institution. It was a power to be feared and obeyed.
The little Frenchman was a good loser, and paid over the money, which was given to the Blakeville Hospital, the institution receiving it gladly.
A sales manager of a prominent institution said lately that the chief difficulty that he had with his men was to make them always tell the truth.
They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States.
But this cannot well be maintained, as in the beginning of Genesis Holy Scripture records the institution of that order of nature which henceforth is to endure.