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The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
Mary Antin

Meaning of "tribute" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRIBUTE

From Latin tribūtum, from tribuere to grant (originally: to distribute among the tribes), from tribustribe.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TRIBUTE

tribute  [ˈtrɪbjuːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRIBUTE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tribute is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRIBUTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tribute

Tribute

A tribute is wealth, often in kind, that one party gives to another as a sign of respect or, as was often the case in historical contexts, of submission or allegiance. Various ancient states exacted tribute from the rulers of land which the state conquered or otherwise threatened to conquer. In case of alliances, lesser parties may pay tribute to more powerful parties as a sign of allegiance and often in order to finance projects that benefited both parties. To be called "tribute" a recognition by the payer of political submission to the payee is normally required; the large sums, essentially protection money, paid by the later Roman and Byzantine Empires to barbarian peoples to prevent them attacking imperial territory, would not usually be termed "tribute" as the Empire accepted no inferior political position. Payments by a superior political entity to an inferior one, made for various purposes, are described by terms including "subsidy".

Definition of tribute in the English dictionary

The first definition of tribute in the dictionary is a gift or statement made in acknowledgment, gratitude, or admiration. Other definition of tribute is a payment by one ruler or state to another, usually as an acknowledgment of submission. Tribute is also any tax levied for such a payment.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRIBUTE


acute
əˈkjuːt
attribute
əˈtrɪbjuːt
beaut
bjuːt
bute
bjuːt
butte
bjuːt
constitute
ˈkɒnstɪˌtjuːt
contribute
kənˈtrɪbjuːt
cute
kjuːt
deattribute
ˌdiːəˈtrɪbjuːt
dispute
dɪˈspjuːt
distribute
dɪˈstrɪbjuːt
execute
ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt
institute
ˈɪnstɪˌtjuːt
misattribute
ˌmɪsəˈtrɪbjuːt
mute
mjuːt
reattribute
ˌriːəˈtrɪbjuːt
redistribute
ˌriːdɪˈstrɪbjuːt
retribute
rɪˈtrɪbjuːt
substitute
ˈsʌbstɪˌtjuːt
ute
juːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRIBUTE

tribromomethane
tribulate
tribulation
tribunal
tribunary
tribunate
tribune
Tribune Group
tribuneship
tribunicial
tribunician
Tribunite
tribunitial
tribunitian
tributaries
tributarily
tributariness
tributary
tribute band
tributer

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRIBUTE

absolute
autoroute
brute
chute
commute
compute
dilute
en route
flute
hirsute
jute
last-minute
minute
parachute
prosecute
prostitute
repute
route
salute
statute

Synonyms and antonyms of tribute in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRIBUTE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tribute» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tribute

Translation of «tribute» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRIBUTE

Find out the translation of tribute to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tribute from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tribute» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

称赞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homenaje
570 millions of speakers

English

tribute
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

श्रद्धांजलि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дань
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tributo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমর্থনসূচক কার্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hommage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penghormatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tribut
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

賛辞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 바치는 것
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pajeg
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அஞ்சலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खंडणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

haraç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tributo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hołd
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дань
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tribut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αφιέρωμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huldeblyk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tribute
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hyllest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tribute

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIBUTE»

The term «tribute» is very widely used and occupies the 5.342 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIBUTE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tribute» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tribute» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tribute

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10 QUOTES WITH «TRIBUTE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tribute.
1
Gregg Allman
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.
2
Don Ameche
I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.
3
Mary Antin
The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
4
Joan Armatrading
One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.
5
Ronnie Barker
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
6
Todd Barry
My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.
7
David Josiah Brewer
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.
8
Poppy Z. Brite
I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.
9
Jack Bruce
Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Billie Burke
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRIBUTE»

Discover the use of tribute in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tribute and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tribute
Working to restore a family farmhouse, former child actress Cilla McGowan remembers her actress grandmother's fatal overdose years earlier before meeting a handsome neighbor and discovering a cache of letters that suggests her grandmother ...
Nora Roberts, 2008
2
Tribute: A Play in Two Acts
"[Scottie's] everyone's friend, nobody's hero, and a great womanizer who's managed to live over fifty years without taking anything seriously.
Bernard Slade, 1978
3
The Hunger Games Tribute Guide
The New York Times bestselling Hunger Games is now a major motion picture -- and here is the ultimate guide to the all the tributes in the 74th annual Hunger Games!
Emily Seife, 2012
4
The Athenian Tribute Lists
This book is the third of four volumes presenting the standard text of, and commentary on, the inscriptions that have come to be known as the â__Athenian Tribute Lists.â__ Through the tribute lists, historians have been able to study the ...
Benjamin Dean Meritt, Malcolm Francis McGregor, Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, 1949
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A Tribute to Paul Erdos
This volume is dedicated to Paul Erdos, who has profoundly influenced mathematics in this century, with over 1200 papers on number theory, complex analysis, probability theory, geometry, interpretation theory, algebra set theory and ...
A. Baker, B. Bollobás, A. Hajnal, 1990
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Tribute to Freud (Second Edition)
The first part of the book, “Writing on the Wall,” was composed some ten years after H.D.’s stay in Vienna; the second part, “Advent,” is a journal she kept during her analysis.
Hilda Doolittle, 2012
7
Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute
This collection of original essays is the first to introduce the English-language reader to the current reevaluation of his ideas in continental Europe.
Wendy James, Marcel Mauss, N. J. Allen, 1998
8
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
' As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put twelve children ...
James McBride, 2012
9
Bike!: A Tribute to the World's Greatest Racing Bicycles
With such enthusiasts in mind, Bike! Is the first book to be produced on the history of the world's most famous racing-bike and component manufacturers.
Richard Moore, Daniel Benson, 2012
10
The Perfect Tribute
1906. Andrews' story was founded on a true incident involving Abraham Lincoln's kindness to a drummer boy. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRIBUTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tribute is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bianchi family join drivers for sad tribute
The Formula One teams and drivers have been paying tribute to him in Hungary, the last race before the August break, with 'Ciao Jules', #JB17 and 'Jules ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
2
Mother pays tribute to murdered schoolgirl Alice Gross as hundreds …
“Music has the power to do so much - to uplift, empower and heal so I hope that the evening was a fitting tribute to a young girl whose own connection with music ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
3
Nick Cave pays tribute to 'beautiful, happy' son Arthur after Sussex …
Nick Cave and his wife Susie have released a statement after their 15-year-old son Arthur died in a fall from a cliff in Brighton, Sussex. Sussex police confirmed ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
4
Simon Cowell pays tribute to mum ahead of X Factor auditions in …
Simon Cowell has paid tribute to his 'very special' mother ahead of today's X Factor auditions in Manchester. The ITV talent show had been due to start this ... «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
5
Downton Abbey to get special Bafta tribute
ITV's hit period drama Downton Abbey will be honoured by Bafta with a special tribute night, attended by the cast and crew. The show, which ends this year after ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
6
Oprah Winfrey, Kerry Washington Pay Tribute to Cicely Tyson …
This little-know fact and many others were shared Wednesday night at the Paley Center for Media's tribute to African-American achievements in television. «Variety, May 15»
7
Ryan Gosling Finally Eats Cereal In Tribute Vid
Ryan Gosling has recorded a video tribute to Ryan McHenry who found fame online for posting videos of the star looking like he was refusing to eat cereal. «Sky News, May 15»
8
Wiz Khalifa's See You Again tribute to Furious 7's Paul Walker hits …
Wiz Khalifa's musical tribute to tragic Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker has become the fastest selling single of the year after hitting No.1 in the UK charts. «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
9
See David Spade's Touching Tribute To Tommy Boy On Its 20th …
That's why David Spade's above Instagram post paying tribute to the film's 20th anniversary, as well as to co-star Chris Farley, has struck a chord with fans of the ... «Cinema Blend, Apr 15»
10
David Byrne crashes own tribute concert with marching band …
David Byrne crashed his own tribute concert, leading a marching band down the aisle at Carnegie Hall and, eventually, to an onstage dance party to the tune of ... «New York Daily News, Mar 15»

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