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Noun institution has 5 senses

institution, establishment - an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
--₁ is a kind of organization, organisation
--₁ has particulars:

medical institution; financial institution, financial organization, financial organisation; issuer; charity; company; religion, faith; vicariate, vicarship; educational institution; academy, honorary society

institution - an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
--₂ is a kind of establishment
--₂ has particulars:
home, nursing home, rest home; orphanage, orphans' asylum; penal institution, penal facility
institution - 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"
--₃ is a kind of custom, tradition
--₃ has particulars: levirate
initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration - 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"; "he regards the fork as a modern introduction"
--₄ is a kind of beginning, start, commencement
--₄ has particulars: authorship, paternity
Derived forms: verb institute₁, verb institutionalise₁
mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum - a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
--₅ is a kind of hospital, infirmary
--₅ has particulars:
Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit

Derived forms: verb institutionalize₁, verb institutionalise₁