institution

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noun

1. an organization founded and united for a specific purpose (Freq. 26)
• Syn:
establishment
• Derivationally related forms:
institutional
• Hypernyms:
organization, organisation
• Hyponyms:
medical institution, financial institution, financial organization, financial organisation, issuer,
charity, company, religion, faith, organized religion, vicariate,
vicarship, educational institution, academy, honorary society
2. an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
institutional
• Hypernyms:
establishment
• Hyponyms:
home, nursing home, rest home, orphanage, orphans' asylum,
penal institution, penal facility
3. a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society (Freq. 1)
- the institution of marriage
- the institution of slavery
- he had become an institution in the theater
• Hypernyms:
custom, tradition
• Hyponyms:
levirate
4. the act of starting something for the first time;
introducing something new (Freq. 1)
- she looked forward to her initiation as an adult
- the foundation of a new scientific society
• Syn:
initiation, founding, foundation, origination, creation,
innovation, introduction, instauration
• Derivationally related forms:
innovational (for: innovation), innovate (for: innovation), create (for: creation), originate (for: origination), institute, institutionalise, found (for: foundation), found (for: founding), initiate (for: initiation)
• Hypernyms:
beginning, start, commencement
• Hyponyms:
authorship, paternity
5. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
• Syn:
mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum
• Derivationally related forms:
institutional, institutionalize, institutionalise
• Hypernyms:
hospital, infirmary
• Hyponyms:
Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm,
funny farm, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse,
sanatorium, snake pit

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum, initiation, founding, foundation, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration, establishment