Definitions for tribune

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tribune trib·une

Spelling: [trib-yoon, trih-byoon]

IPA: /ˈtrɪb yun, trɪˈbyun/

Tribune is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in tribune (beinrtu).

Definitions for tribune

noun

1. a person who upholds or defends the rights of the people.
2. Roman History. any of various administrative officers, especially one of 10 officers elected to protect the interests and rights of the plebeians from the patricians. any of the six officers of a legion who rotated in commanding the legion during the year.
3. a raised platform for a speaker; a dais, rostrum, or pulpit.
4. a raised part, or gallery, with seats, as in a church.
5. (in a Christian basilica) the bishop's throne, occupying a recess or apse.
6. the apse itself.
7. tribunal (def 3).

Origin of tribune

1325-75; Middle English Latin tribūnus, derivative of tribus tribe

Examples for tribune

A correspondent of the tribune at once sent him word that this was a mistake.

In 2006, he left LA with a flourish when the tribune Co. demanded severe cuts in the newsroom and Baquet refused to make them.

Her address is printed in full in the Woman's tribune of April 28, 1888.

Free again, she reclines on her couch, and is reading the tribune.

Never mind that the tribune props him up like a Ming vase now.

The tribune was surrounded by a squadron of hussars of the National Guard.

Since 1830 the widow again supplicated the tribune des Chambres.

His move to the tribune would be followed by a move to a suburban manse—“Heresy!”

The very atmosphere of the Chamber seemed to change with Vignon in the tribune.

The tribune of adolescent sensitivity and longing has suddenly transformed into a macho bully.