: an act of instituting : ESTABLISHMENT
: something or someone firmly associated with a place
or thing
: an established organization or corporation (as a college or
university) : ASYLUM
: a significant practice, relationship, or organization in a society or culture
sig·nif·i·cant
: having meaning; especially : SUGGESTIVE
<a significant glance>
: having or likely to have influence or effect : IMPORTANT
: of a noticeably or measurably large amount
: probably caused by something other than mere
: the state of being related or interrelated <studied
the relationship between the variables>
: the relation connecting or binding participants in
a relationship: as a : KINSHIP
: a state of affairs existing between those having relations
: a romantic or passionate attachment
: the act or process of organizing or of being organized
: the condition or manner of being organized
: ASSOCIATION, SOCIETY
: an administrative and functional structure
: the personnel of such a structure
: CULTIVATION, TILLAGE
: the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education
: expert care and training <beauty culture>
: enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training
: acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills
: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation
: cultivation of living material in prepared nutrient
media : a product of such cultivation