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Grammar : Noun
Spell : in-sti-too-shuh n, -tyoo-
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn stɪˈtu ʃən, -ˈtyu-

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Définition of institution

Origin :
  • c.1400, "action of establishing or founding (a system of government, a religious order, etc.)," from Old French institucion "foundation; thing established," from Latin institutionem (nominative institutio) "disposition, arrangement; instruction, education," noun of state from institutus (see institute). Meaning "established law or practice" is from 1550s. Meaning "establishment or organization for the promotion of some charity" is from 1707.
  • noun organization
Example sentences :
  • I did not tell you of it at the time, but led you to suppose that I had been at the institution.
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • The truth was, a boy meant just so much a year to the institution.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • And this was strange, since the Italian restaurant is such a peculiarly British institution.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • I was received into the institution without any difficulty, and have belonged to it ever since.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • So let us hasten to this institution, and participate this divine joy.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • In 1875 he was created an honorary member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
  • Why, she was called in the Institution, Harriet Beadle—an arbitrary name, of course.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • No institution was ever more popular; no masters more beloved.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • There should be no institution out of the reach of an indignant or admiring humanity.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • A man deliberately makes a hog of himself, and that's an Institution!'
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
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