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institution

English

  1. 🔊 an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
  2. 🔊 a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
    “the institution of marriage”
  3. 🔊 an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
  4. 🔊 the act of starting something for the first time
    “she looked forward to her initiation as an adult”
  5. 🔊 a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

Spanish

  1. 🔊 instancia institution
  2. 🔊 institución institution

Similar words

initiation founding foundation origination creation innovation introduction instauration mental hospital psychiatric hospital mental institution mental home insane asylum asylum establishment a academy act agency alpha apostolic orders appointment asylum atelier