Definitions for tribute

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tribute trib·ute

Spelling: [trib-yoot]

IPA: /ˈtrɪb yut/

Tribute is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in tribute (beirttu).

Definitions for tribute

noun

1. a gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem.
2. a stated sum or other valuable consideration paid by one sovereign or state to another in acknowledgment of subjugation or as the price of peace, security, protection, or the like.
3. a rent, tax, or the like, as that paid by a subject to a sovereign.
4. any exacted or enforced payment or contribution.
5. obligation or liability to make such payment.

Origin of tribute

1300-50; Middle English tribut Latin tribūtum a levied payment, noun use of neuter of past participle of tribuere to assign, allot, derivative of tribus tribe

Examples for tribute

The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.

Sabbath or no Sabbath, the Glen cannot let him pass without some tribute of their pride.

The following page details a tribute gag the Simpsons team inserted into the background of a scene.

Realistically, what I saw was exactly what I would have expected at a Grateful Dead tribute show.

This video of one of his last, and most impressive, stunts was released as a tribute to his memory.

They instead announced a tribute to the two fallen officers.

The bosom received this tribute in its most engaging manner.

A tribute to legendary photographer Irving Penn sparked it all.

I noted the tribute to the staid painter, and nodded approvingly.

It is a tribute to the memory and worth of one of his early friends at Eton.