Tribute

Definition: Tribute

Tribute

Noun

1. Something given or done as an expression of esteem.

2. Payment by one nation for protection by another.

3. Payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tribute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

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Synonyms: Tribute

Approbation

Commendation, praise; laud, laudation; good word; meed of praise, tribute of praise; encomium; eulogy, eulogium; eloge, panegyric; homage, hero worship; benediction, blessing, benison.

Commend, belaud, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise; clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate, encore; panegyrize, eulogize, cry up, proner, puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt, swell, make much of; flatter; bless, give a blessing to; have a good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo, applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo.

Expenditure

Payment; pay; (remuneration); bribe; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota; donation;.

Giving

Allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention.

Respect

Verb: respect, regard; revere, reverence; hold in reverence, honor, venerate, hallow; esteem; (approve of); think much of; entertain respect for, bear respect for; look up to, defer to; have a high opinion of, hold a high opinion of; pay attention, pay respect; n. to; do honor to, render honor to; do the honors, hail; show courtesy; salute, present arms; do homage to, pay homage to; pay tribute to, kneel to, bow to, bend the knee to; fall down before, prostrate oneself, kiss the hem of one's garment; worship.

Reward

Allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage.

Crosswords: Tribute

German (tributes).

I'm just helping him collect a tribute, for a demon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

The fact that she can be so annoying is really a tribute to you (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

You're a tribute to man's endurance (M*A*S*H; writing credit: Larry Gelbart)

The Ryan White Story is being shown as a tribute to Ryan (The Ryan White Story; writing credit: Phil Penningroth;)

A glowing tribute, Mr. Kidd (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1974)

Tribute to Cole Porter (1967)

A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1965)

Young People's Concerts: A Tribute to Sibelius (1965)

A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts (1963)

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Books

• 100 Years of Fishing: The Ultimate Tribute to Our Fishing Tradition (reference)

• Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men (reference)

• Teachers Are Special: A Tribute to Those Who Educate, Encourage & Inspire (reference)

• The New York Times Sunday Crossword Tribute to Eugene T. Maleska (reference)

• To Oprah With Love: A Photographic Tribute (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Tribute (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan (reference)

• The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Tribute to Judas Priest, Vol. 2: Delivering the Goods (reference)

• Come Together: An A Cappella Tribute to the Beatles (reference)

• A Tribute To The Comedian Harmonists (reference)

• Compassion: A Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin (reference)

• Continuous Mix Tribute to Destiny's Child (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Cortelco Kellogg Tribute Desk/Wall Mount Phone Redial Tone/Pulse Pearl Gray (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Tribute (12-pc. set) (reference)

• Tribute Flatware Set (45-pc.) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Passes the wreck of USS Arizona (BB-39) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Memorial Day, 31 May 1958. Bennington's crew is in formation on the flight deck, spelling out a tribute to the Arizona's crewmen who were lost in the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Note the outline of Arizona's hull and the flow of oil from her fuel tanks. Credit: NAVY.

"Boxer Tribute -- While Pantherjets rest on the catapults in readiness, officers and men of the carrier USS Boxer (CVA-21) uncover to pay tribute to pilots and crewmembers of the ship who gave their lives during the Korean War." Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces Far East under date of 9 August 1953. Plane on the port catapult is a Grumman F9F of Fighter Squadron 151 (VF-151). Credit: NAVY.

Tribute to the dead. Credit: Library of Congress.

President of Liberia honors nation's founder. His Excellency, Edwin M. Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, paid tribute to this nation's founder Saturday, May 29, 1943 whe he journeyed to Mount Vernon, Virginia, to place a wreath on the tomb of. Credit: Library of Congress.

America's tribute to Britain / fgc ; The Marchbanks Press, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

America's tribute to Britain / fgc ; The Marchbanks Press, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Whence it is plain, that shaking off a power, which force, and not right, hath set over any one, though it hath the name of rebellion, yet is no offence before God, but is that which he allows and countenances, though even promises and covenants, when obtained by force, have intervened: for it is very probable, to any one that reads the story of Ahaz and Hezekiah attentively, that the Assyrians subdued Ahaz, and deposed him, and made Hezekiah king in his father's lifetime; and that Hezekiah by agreement had done him homage, and paid him tribute all this time. (Second Treatise of Government)

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But when you mentioned Mrs. Dixon, I felt how much more probable that it should be the tribute of warm female friendship

The tribute to Caesar is never more than the remnant of the tribute to God.

He remembered with bitterness that scene of tawdry tribute.

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Economic History

Qatar

The tribute ended with the occupation of Qatar by the Ottoman Turks in 1872. (references)

Burundi

A king (mwani) headed a princely aristocracy (gwana) which owned most of the land and required a tribute, or tax, from local farmers and herders. (references)

North Korea

Though the Choson dynasty paid tribute to the Chinese court and recognized China's hegemony in East Asia, Korea was independent until the late 19th century. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Increase of tribute

Expressions using "tribute": be under tribute ♦ floral tribute ♦ Knee tribute ♦ lay under tribute ♦ levy tribute on ♦ pay a tribute to smb. ♦ pay tribute ♦ pay tribute to ♦ tribute album ♦ Tribute money ♦ tribute of admiration ♦ Tribute pitch. Additional references.

Beginning with "tribute": tribute-assessments, tribute-bearers, tribute-children, tribute-district, tribute-exaction, tribute-lands, Tribute-list, Tribute-lists, tribute-paying, tribute-payment, tribute-payments.

Ending with "tribute": dope-tribute, fur-tribute, hero-tribute, praise-my-soul-the-king-of-heaven-to-his-feet-thy-tribute, verse-tribute.

Albanian

haraç (ransom). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقدمة, ‏ضريبة (contribution, excise, imposition, levy, rate, scot, tax, taxation, vat), ‏جزية, ‏إجلال (homage, honor, honour, respect, solemnity), ‏ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, lap, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tuck), ‏ثناء (compliment, laudation), ‏شيد (cite, construct, elevate, erect, praise, put up, raise, structure, whitewash), ‏دفع الضريبة, ‏دفع الجزية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

налог (aid, imposition, impost, rate, scot, tax), лепта (mite, subscription), подвластност (dependence, subordination), данък (aid, cess, duty, imposition, impost, lot, scot, tax), дан (toll). (various references)

Chinese 

貢物 , 貢 (gifts), 进贡. (various references)

Czech

hold (homage, obeisance), daò (impost, levy, rate, scat, tax), úcta (awe, deference, esteem, estimation, obeisance, piety, regard, reputation, respect, reverence, veneration). (various references)

Dutch

schatting (appraisal, estimate, evaluation, pricing). (various references)

Esperanto

tributo. (various references)

Farsi 

تکریم (Reverence, Veneration), ستایش (Adoration, Eulogy, Laud, Panegyric, Praise, Veneration, Worship), خراج (Gavel, Levy, Spendthrift, Tax), احترام (Curtsy, Obeisance, Regard, Respect, Respectability, Revere, Reverence, Veneration), باج (Gavel, Imposition, Scot, Tax, Toll). (various references)

Finnish

vero (duty, rate, tax), kunnioituksen osoitus (homage), juhlinta (celebration, high jinks). (various references)

French

tribut. (various references)

German

Tribut (dues, toll), Abgabe (contribution, delivery, depositing, duty, emission, handing in, submission, tax). (various references)

Greek 

φόροσ υποτελείασ, φόροσ (impost, scot, tax), φόρος τιμής, απονομή τιμής. (various references)

Hebrew 

משא (bearing, burden, carrying, load, longing, present, prophecy, stowage, utterance), מכס (customs, duty, levy, scot, toll), מס (duty, fee, impost, levy, scot, tax), מנחה (gift, minhah, oblation, offering, present, sacrifice), מנדה (land tax), שי (gift, present), הוקרה (adoration, appreciation, esteem, recognition, regard, veneration). (various references)

Hungarian

sarc (contribution), tisztelet (adoration, awe, cult, dread, esteem, honor, honour, regard, respect, reverence, veneration), tartozás (debit, dues, obligation, passive debts), hűbér (fee, feudal tenure), elismerés (accolade, acknowledgment, admission, appreciation, approbation, avowal, honourable mention, probate, recognition, regard), adó (cess, contribution, dues, duty, impost, tax, transmitter, transmitting). (various references)

Indonesian

upeti. (various references)

Italian

tributo (levy), omaggio (compliments, free sample, gift, give away, homage, hommage, obeisance, regards, respects). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

貢物. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こうそ (accusation, annual tax, appeal, enzyme, founder of an empire, founder of dynasty or sect, prosecution, public tax), みつぎもの, みつぎ (secret conference, secret rites, secrets), へいこう (abreast, at the same time, balance, closing a school, concurrent, equalization, equilibrium, even scale, occurring together, offering, parallel, parallelism, shut mouth, side by side). (various references)

Korean 

공물. (various references)

Manx

tack (interest payer, tax), onnor (honour), moylley (advocate; compliments, applaud, applause, bamboozle, boost, boost praise, cheer, cheer praise, commend, commendation, compliment, gull, laud, plaudits, praise, promotion, put forward, recommend, recommendation). (various references)

Pig Latin

ibutetray.(various references)

Portuguese

tributo (due, imposition, impost, scot, subsidy, tax). (various references)

Romanian

tribut, vamã (custom, custom house, Pike, toll), prinos (gift, oblation, offering, sacrifice), omagiu (gift, homage), impozit (contribution, due, duty, impost, scot, tax, taxation, toll), bir (impost, tax). (various references)

Russian 

награда (guerdon, meed, prise, prize, reward, trophy), дань (scat). (various references)

Scottish

màl (rent, tax), cìs (tax), càin (a fine, a tax, rent, revile, scold, tax, white: from Latin ca@-nus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

priznanje (accolade, acknowledgement, avowal, cognizance, confession, ladle-out honors, recognition), poštovanje (deference, esteem, estimation, regard, respect, respects, reverence), danak (tax). (various references)

Spanish

tributo (tax, tributary). (various references)

Swedish

tribut (tax, toll), hyllning (acclaim, homage). (various references)

Turkish

takdir (admiration, appreciation, approbation, commendation, discretion, estimate, estimation, opinion, recognition, regard), işçinin payına düşen maden, haraç (exaction, extortion, pad, protection, racket, tax), hürmet (deference, homage, honor, honour, obeisance, regard, respect, reverence, veneration), devletin devlete barış için ödediği para, övgü (accolade, approbation, bouquet, commendation, compliment, eclat, encomium, eulogy, glowing account, ode, panegyric, praise). (various references)

Turkmen 

salgyt (payment). (various references)

Ukrainian

нагорода (award, bacon, distinction, guerdon, meed, pay off, payoff, premium, price, prize, reward, testimonial), данина (scat). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật cống, cái để tỏ lòng tôn kính, đồ cống vật tặng để tỏ lòng kính trọng. (various references)

Welsh

treth (rate, tax), teyrn.ged. (various references)

buzur, gunu, gu-un. (various references)

adsidue, adsiduus, inmunem, inmunes, inmunis, munera, munere, muneribus, muneris, munerum, munus, stipendia, stipendiis, stipendium, tributa, tributi, tributis, tributo, tributorum, tributum, vectigal, vectigalia, vectigalium. (various references)

gafol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "tribute": tributes. (additional references)

Words ending with "tribute": attribute, contribute, distribute, misattribute, reattribute, redistribute. (additional references)

Words containing "tribute": attributed, attributes, contributed, contributes, distributed, distributee, distributees, distributes, misattributed, misattributes, reattributed, reattributes, redistributed, redistributes, unattributed, undistributed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tribute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tirbutt, trabeated, Trabudge, Tradbudge, tribnte, tribu, tribut, tributer, Trimurti, Trombetta, trubute, trusbut, trusbuts, ttribute. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bitter, butter, turbit.

-2 letters: biter, britt, bruit, brute, buret, butte, rebut, titer, titre, tribe, trite, tuber, uteri, utter.

-3 letters: bier, bite, bitt, brie, brit, brut, bute, butt, etui, rite, rube, tier, tire, tret, true, tube.

-4 letters: bet, bit, bur, but, ire, reb, rei, ret, rib, rub, rue, rut, tet, tie, tub, tui, tut, urb.

+1 letter: tributes, unbitter.

+2 letters: attribute, briquette, butterier, butteries, buttering, jitterbug, litterbug, rebutting, tribulate, tribunate, turbidite, turbinate, ytterbium.

+3 letters: attributed, attributes, briquetted, briquettes, butterfish, butteriest, buttermilk, contribute, distribute, jitterbugs, litterbugs, tribulated, tribulates, tribunates, triturable, tuberosity, turbidites, turbinated, turbinates, ytterbiums.

+4 letters: attributive, barbiturate, bitterbrush, briquetting, brutalities, butterflied, butterflies, buttermilks, buttressing, contributed, contributes, distributed, distributee, distributes, obstructive, reattribute, rebuttoning, resubmitted, retribution, retributive, retributory, subliterate, subtractive, tributaries, turbidities.