Tribute

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  • noun. A gift, payment, declaration, or other acknowledgment of gratitude, respect, or admiration.
  • noun. Evidence attesting to some praiseworthy quality or characteristic.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A payment in money or other valuables made by one ruler or nation to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of protection or security.
  • noun. A tax imposed for such payment.
  • noun. Any payment exacted for protection.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A payment or tax given by a feudal vassal to an overlord.
  • noun. The obligation to make such a payment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pay as tribute.
  • To distribute; bestow; dispose.
  • noun. A stated sum of money or other valuable consideration paid by one prince or state to another in acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace, security, and protection, or by virtue of some treaty.
  • noun. The state of being liable for such a payment; the obligation of contributing.
  • noun. Formerly, that which was paid by a subject or a tenant to a sovereign or lord; a tax; rental.
  • noun. See the quotation.
  • noun. A contribution; an accretion.
  • noun. A personal acknowledgment or offering; a mark of devotion, gratitude, or respect.
  • noun. In mining, the proportion of ore or its value which a person doing tribute-work receives for his labor.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty.
  • noun. A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved.
  • noun. A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense.
  • noun. money paid as a tribute or tax.
  • noun. See under Tributer.
  • intransitive verb. To pay as tribute.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
  • noun. A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
  • noun. Extortion; protection money.
  • noun. A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
  • verb. To pay as tribute.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. payment by one nation for protection by another
  • noun. something given or done as an expression of esteem
  • noun. payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
  • Word Usage
    "All the Strangers that dwelt in the land, were _tributaries_ to the Israelites -- required to pay an annual tribute to the government, either in money, or in public service, which was called a "_tribute of bond-service_;" in other words, all the Strangers were _national servants_, to the Israelites, and the same Hebrew word which is used to designate _individual_ servants, equally designates"
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