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Institution and University Definitions

Institution

The act of instituting
The institution of reforms.

University

An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities typically including a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.

Institution

A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance in the life of a community or society
The institutions of marriage and the family.

University

The buildings and grounds of such an institution.

Institution

(Informal) One long associated with a specified place, position, or function.

University

The body of students and faculty of such an institution.
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Institution

An established organization or foundation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, or culture.

University

Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.

Institution

A building or complex of buildings housing such an organization.

University

The universe; the whole.

Institution

A building or complex of buildings housing people who need special services, such as orphans or people with mental disabilities.

University

An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others.
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Institution

A custom or practice of a society or community.
The institution of marriage is present in many cultures but its details vary widely across them.

University

An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty
The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.

Institution

A long established and respected organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.
The University of the South Pacific is the only internationally accredited institution of higher education in Oceania.

University

The body of faculty and students at a university

Institution

The building or buildings which house such an organization.
He's been in an institution since the crash.

University

Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
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Institution

A mental institution.

University

A large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees

Institution

(informal) Any long established and respected place or business.
Over time, the local pub has become something of an institution.

Institution

(informal) A person long established in a place, position, or field.
She's not just any old scholar; she is an institution.

Institution

The act of instituting something.
The institution of higher speed limits was a popular move but increased the severity of crashes.

Institution

(Christianity) The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest. en

Institution

(obsolete) That which institutes or instructs, particularly a textbook or system of elements or rules.

Institution

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.

Institution

Instruction; education.

Institution

That which instituted or established
The nature of our people,Our city's institutions.

Institution

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.
We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return.

Institution

That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.
There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, . . . being an institution of physic.

Institution

An organization founded and united for a specific purpose

Institution

An establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated

Institution

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

Institution

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

Institution

A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

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