創立|そうりつsouritsu[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbestablishment; founding; organization; organisation
   私わたしたちの学校がっこうは創立そうりつして５０年ねんだ。↗

   Our school is fifty years old.

• Synonym設立せつりつWrittenWritten. For setting up a company, institution or committee; stresses newly establishing. 創立 stresses an organization's first birth, as in 「創立記念日」.
• Synonym創設そうせつWrittenWritten. Creating a system or institution for the first time, e.g. 「賞を創設」; 創立 is for whole organizations such as schools and companies.
• Synonym創始そうしWrittenWritten. Pioneering or initiating something, as in 「創始者」; highlights the very first originator rather than the founding act.
• Synonym創建そうけんWrittenWritten and historical: founding a temple, shrine or nation; you will meet it in older or formal texts.
• Synonym草創そうそうWrittenWritten. The founding or beginning of a venture, as in 「草創期」; the focus falls on those first pioneering days.
• Synonym結成けっせいNeutralNeutral. People or groups banding together to form an organization or band; the stress is on members coming together.
• Synonym創業そうぎょうNeutralNeutral. Founding a business specifically, as in 「創業100年」; keep it to commercial ventures, not schools or other bodies.
• Related設置せっちWrittenWritten. Setting up a body or facility, e.g. 「委員会を設置」, and installing equipment; often something placed within an existing organization.
• Related開設かいせつNeutralNeutral. Opening something and putting it into service, typically an account, shop or website, e.g. 「口座開設」.
• Related設けるもうけるWrittenWritten-leaning verb: to set up or provide something such as a counter or service, e.g. 「窓口を設ける」.
• Related作るつくるNeutralNeutral everyday verb, the most common and broadest of all: to make or build. For founding, it sounds casual next to 創立.
• Related新設しんせつNeutralNeutral. Newly setting something up, e.g. 「学科を新設」 for a new department; stresses that something new is being added.
• Related組織そしきNeutralNeutral. Organizing or forming something, with the focus on structure; also the everyday noun for an organization itself.
• Related編成へんせいWrittenWritten. Assembling parts into an organized whole, e.g. 「チーム編成」; the focus is on how units are arranged, not on founding.
• Related発足ほっそくWrittenWritten. Intransitive: a new organization or system starting operations, e.g. 「新体制が発足」; the launch, not the founding act.
• Related形成けいせいWrittenWritten. Something taking form or being shaped, e.g. 「人格形成」; stresses forming, while 創立 is first establishing an organization.
• Related結社けっしゃWrittenWritten, with a legal-political flavor: an association people form for a common purpose, or the forming of one.
• Related築き上げるきずきあげるNeutralNeutral verb for building something up bit by bit — a business, fortune or reputation; stresses accumulation, not a single founding act.
• Related確立かくりつWrittenWritten. Firmly establishing a system, policy or position; the stress is on making something solid and settled, not on creating it.
• Related樹立じゅりつWrittenWritten. Standing up something abstract — a government, ideals — or setting a record; stresses erecting and fixing firmly.
• Antonym廃止はいしWrittenWritten antonym: abolishing a system, practice or institution that has been in operation.
• Antonym解散かいさんNeutralNeutral antonym: dissolving or disbanding a company, group, assembly or parliament — the reverse of 創立.

Use 「創立」 for the first-time founding of an organization such as a school or company, as in 「創立記念日」. For setting up a company or institution pick 「設立」; for a new organization starting operations, 「発足」; for founding a business, 「創業」; for people forming a group, 「結成」. 「解散」 is the word for dissolving one.

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1. 学校がっこうや会社かいしゃなどの機関きかんを初はじめて作つくること。