Institute
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English
Noun
Institute (plural Institutes)- An organization founded to promote a cause
- I work in a medical research institute.
- An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
- The building housing such an institution
Derived terms
Verb
Institute (third-person singular simple present Institutes, present participle instituting, simple past and past participle instituted)
- (transitive) to begin or initiate something
- He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
Thesaurus
Schule, academy, alliance, association, author, bear, beget, begin, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broach, cause, christen, commence, conceive, constitute, create, decree, decretum, do, ecole, edict, educational institution, effect, effectuate, engender, escuela, establish, establishment, father, float, form, found, foundation, generate, gestate, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, guild, inaugurate, incept, induct, initiate, install, institution, introduce, launch, law, league, lift up, make, materialize, occasion, ordinance, organization, organize, originate, pioneer, precept, prescript, produce, raise, realize, regulation, ring in, rule, scholastic institution, school, seminary, set afloat, set agoing, set on foot, set up, sire, society, start, start going, start up, statute, teaching institution, turn on, usher in, work
Etymology
From Middle English, from Latin īnstitūtus, past participle of īnstituō (“I set up, place upon, purpose, begin, institute”) < in (“in, on”) + statuō (“set up, establish”).
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External links
- Institute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Institute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Institute at OneLook Dictionary Search
Latin
Participle
institūte
- vocative masculine singular of institūtus
