institution

Meanings

Noun

• an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
• an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
• 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"
• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
• a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

Synonyms

asylum, creation, establishment, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, insane asylum, instauration, introduction, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, origination, psychiatric hospital