A formal entry into an organization or position or office:
— His initiation into the club.

synoniemen: induction, installation.

Roget 537: teaching etc. v.; instruction; edification; education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy^†.    qualification, preparation; training, schooling etc. v.; discipline; excitation.    drill, practice; book exercise.    persuasion, proselytism, propagandism^†, propaganda; indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation; advise etc. 695.    explanation etc. (interpretation) 522; lesson, lecture, sermon; apologue^†, parable; discourse, prolection^†, preachment; chalk talk; Chautauqua [U.S.].    exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three R's, initiation, A.   B.C., etc. (beginning) 66.    elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics^†, moral tuition.    gymnastics, calisthenics; physical drill, physical education; sloyd^†.    [methods of teaching] phonics; rote, rote memorization, brute memory; cooperative learning; Montessori method, ungraded classes.    [measuring degree of learning of pupils] test, examination, exam; final exam, mid-term exam grade [result of measurement of learning], score, marks; A,B,C,D,E,F; gentleman's C; pass, fail, incomplete.    homework; take-home lesson; exercise for the student; theme, project.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: bevestiging, installatie, vestiging

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new:
— She looked forward to her initiation as an adult.

synoniemen: creation, foundation, founding, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination.

Nederlands: inleiding, creatie, formatie, grondvesting, introductie, stichting, vorming
Pools: inicjacja

Wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge:
— His dullness was due to lack of initiation.

synoniemen: knowledgeability, knowledgeableness.

An act that sets in motion some course of events.

synoniemen: induction, trigger.

Pools: wywołanie