All institution synonyms

noun institution

• foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
• school — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
• business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
• institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
• academy — Academy is sometimes used in the names of schools and colleges, especially those specializing in particular subjects or skills, or private high schools in the United States.
• university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
• system — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
• society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
• clinic — A clinic is a building where people go to receive medical advice or treatment.
• hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
• company — A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
• association — An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.
• conservatory — A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory.
• guild — an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
• fixture — something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc.: a light fixture; kitchen fixtures.
• college — A college is an institution where students study after they have left school.
• asylum — If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons.
• seminar — a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
• orphanage — an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
• seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
• organization — the act or process of organizing.
• organisation — the act or process of organizing.
• establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
• body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
• tradition — the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice: a story that has come down to us by popular tradition.
• custom — A custom is an activity, a way of behaving, or an event which is usual or traditional in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
• convention — A convention is a way of behaving that is considered to be correct or polite by most people in a society.
• ritual — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
• introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
• creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.