n.

1. Formal induction into office.
2. A formal beginning or introduction.

noun

1. The act or process of formally admitting a person to membership or office: inaugural, induction, initiation, installation, instatement, investiture. See accept/reject.
2. The act or process of bringing or being brought into existence: beginning, commencement, inception, incipience, incipiency, initiation, launch, leadoff, opening, origination, start. Informal kickoff. See start/end.

n

Definition: installation
Antonyms: adjournment, close, closure, demise, ending

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inauguration, originally the ἱεροςγάμος (sacred marriage), a symbolic mating of the new king with the goddess of the kingdom [see kingship]. Scholars claim that the most famous of these inaugural fertility rites was the Feis Temro (feast of Tara), at which the new king married the goddess Medb [see also Lia Fáil]. The last instance of this event occurred in AD c.560. These rites were tenaciously recalled, with traditional rhetoric, in medieval Irish literature as metaphors of kingship, but by then the clergy had thoroughly christianized inauguration.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - indvielse, indsættelse, åbning

Nederlands (Dutch)
inwijding, ope- ningsplechtigheid, inauguratie, inhuldiging

Français (French)
n. - investiture, intronisation, inauguration

Deutsch (German)
n. - Einweihung, Beginn, Amtseinführung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εγκαίνια, εγκαινιασμός, ανάρρηση

Italiano (Italian)
inaugurazione, cerimonia inaugurale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - inauguração (f)

Русский (Russian)
торжественное введение в должность, торжественное открытие

Español (Spanish)
n. - investidura, inauguración, toma de posesión

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - invigning, avtäckning, installation (i ämbete), inledning, införande

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
就职典礼, 开幕式

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 就職典禮, 開幕式

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 취임[식], 개업, 개시

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 就任

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) افتتاح‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חנוכה, פתיחה, הקדשה, הכנסה לתפקיד‬

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