institution  /,ɪnstɪt'uʃən/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  institution
  U建立,設立;C公共機構

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Institution \In`sti*tu"tion\, n. [L. institutio: cf. F.
     institution.]
     1. The act or process of instituting; as:
        (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the
            institution of a school.
  
                  The institution of God's law is described as
                  being established by solemn injunction.
                                                    --Hooker.
        (b) Instruction; education. [Obs.] --Bentley.
        (c) (Eccl. Law) 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.
            --Blackstone.
  
     2. That which instituted or established; as:
        (a) Established order, method, or custom; enactment;
            ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
  
                  The nature of our people, Our city's
                  institutions.                     --Shak.
        (b) 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.
        (c) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent
            feature in social or national life or habits.
  
                  We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of
                  English institutions, next to dinner) to be
                  ready against our return.         --Hawthorne.
  
     3. That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system
        of elements or rules; an institute. [Obs.]
  
              There is another manuscript, of above three hundred
              years old, . . . being an institution of physic.
                                                    --Evelyn.

資料來源(3): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  institution
       n 1: an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
            [syn: {establishment}]
       2: an establishment consisting of a building or complex of
          buildings where an organization for the promotion of some
          cause is situated
       3: 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"
       4: 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" [syn: {initiation}, {founding}, {foundation},
           {origination}, {creation}, {innovation}, {introduction},
          {instauration}]
       5: a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
          [syn: {mental hospital}, {psychiatric hospital}, {mental
          institution}, {mental home}, {insane asylum}, {asylum}]