Definitions for tribunal

tribunal tri·bu·nal

Spelling: [trahy-byoon-l, tri-]
IPA: /traɪˈbyun l, trɪ-/

Tribunal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in tribunal (abilnrtu).

Definitions for tribunal

noun

  1. a court of justice.
  2. a place or seat of judgment.
  3. Also called tribune. a raised platform for the seats of magistrates, as in an ancient Roman basilica.

Origin of tribunal

1520-30; Latin tribūnal, tribūnāle judgment seat, equivalent to tribūn(us) tribune1 + -āl(e) -al2

Examples for tribunal

The tribunal was impressed: the members, silent, attentive, let the witness have her way.

An act of parliament was passed in 1973 to set up a tribunal with jurisdiction to punish the perpetrators of the genocide.

Wesolowski is confined to house arrest in the walled city, awaiting trial in front of the Vatican tribunal.

Zia, in bed with the Islamists who were being dispatched to the gallows by the tribunal, found her appeal ebbing.

It is a tribunal in which the priest is judge and the penitent a prisoner who pleads guilty.

Inform the tribunal of what you did that day within the Bastille, citizen.

Participating in this tribunal rewards players while cutting down on negativity.

Committee Chairman Ed Royce called for a tribunal to be established to hold the Assad regime accountable for war crimes.

I know you, Evremonde; I saw you before the tribunal to-day.

After which he and his opponent bowed to the tribunal, and departed.

Word Value for tribunal
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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