Main entry: initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination, creation, foundation, founding
Definition: the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
Usage: she looked forward to her initiation as an adult; the foundation of a new scientific society
Main entry: institution
Definition: an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
Main entry: mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, asylum, insane asylum, institution, psychiatric hospital
Definition: a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Main entry: institution
Definition: a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
Usage: the institution of marriage; the institution of slavery; he had become an institution in the theater
Main entry: institution, establishment
Definition: an organization founded and united for a specific purpose