Other forms: institutes
An institute is an organisation set up for study or a special purpose. A research institute, the institute's report, founded the institute.
As a verb, stressed the same way, it means to establish something, as in instituting proceedings. The Women's Institute in Britain is the best-known one that has nothing to do with research.
1nouninstituteAn organisation set up for study or a special purpose.
“She works at a research institute that studies climate change.”
institute is an organisation.
Latin institutum means something established, from instituere, to set up.
Latin
īnstitūtum
French
institut
English, today
institute
From French institut, from Middle French -, from Latin īnstitūtum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA