Institute

Quick meaning: Institute is a noun meaning An organization founded to promote a cause.

Meaning

An organization founded to promote a cause.

More Meanings

1. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
2. The building housing such an institution.
3. (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
4. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
5. (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
6. (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.

Example Sentences

to make the Stoic institutes thy own

water sanctified by Christ's institute

I work in a medical research institute.

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.

Word Forms

• institutes
• instituting
• instituted

Synonyms for institute

Depending on context, synonyms include constitute, establish, bring, found, plant.

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