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institution
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of INSTITUTION
1
a public organization with a particular purpose or function <a charitable institution devoted to raising funds to feed the hungry>
2
a person who has long been associated with a place or activity <an actor who has been a Broadway institution for decades>
Synonyms fixture
3
a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest <an institution devoted to studying social problems and proposing solutions for them>
Synonyms board, brotherhood, chamber, club, college, congress, consortium, council, fellowship, fraternity, guild (also gild), institute, institution, league, order, organization, society, sodality
Related Words collective, commune, community, cooperative; alliance, bloc, camp, coalition, partnership; body, cadre, group; circle, clan, clique, coterie, junta, junto, klatch (also klatsch), lot, set; crew, outfit, party, squad, team; branch, chapter, local; faithful, fold, membership; sisterhood, sorority; cabal, camarilla, camorra, confederacy, conspiracy; band, gang, ring; cartel, combine, syndicate
4
a place where insane people are cared for <their father was committed to an institution after his mental health began to rapidly deteriorate>
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