institution

Meanings

• 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

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

Scrabble Score: 11

institution is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

institution is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

institution is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

institution is a valid Words With Friends word

Angrams of institution