institution

institution has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• n.. The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
• n.. Instruction; education.
• n.. The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.
• n.. That which instituted or established
• n.. Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
• n.. An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.
• n.. Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.
• n.. That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.
• n.. 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"
• n.. an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
• n.. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
• n.. 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"