tribute
IPA: trˈɪbjut
noun
- An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
- An homage made in a body of work to another work or creator.
- A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
- Extortion; protection money.
- A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
- (mining) A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.
verb
- (transitive) To pay as tribute.
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Examples of "tribute" in Sentences
- The movie was a tribute to the Cinema of Italy.
- The design of the building is a tribute to masonry.
- Fellow writers could be effusive in their tributes.
- One of the displays is a tribute to the Free Canteen.
- The name was a tribute to the anniversary of the city.
- Christ and the apostles rendered tribute to the emperor.
- The benefit of the tribute system was a profitable trade.
- It is a tribute to the ingenuity of the human imagination.
- A tribute is paid to the athlete's sportsmanship and spirit.
- Ancient empires typically demanded tribute from the conquered.
- It helps to emphasize the solemnity of the tributes and burials.
- People can give $10 by texting the word "tribute" to the number 20222.
- [5] Bloomfield refers to a poem written in tribute to Alexander Pope, for the text of which, see Letter 68.
- At the same time this is a label tribute to Fairport Convention because in '70's for me this are the purpose of' 'Greathest Hits' 'albums.
- And then later this month, Ed Klein (ph), who did the initial book about JFK Jr. and Carolyn, is coming out with what he calls a tribute to Jacqueline Kennedy.
- 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
- The castles were built by the dukes, and barons, and other feudal chieftains of the middle ages, and they are placed in these commanding positions in order that the chieftains who lived in them might watch the river, and the roads leading along the banks of it, and come down with a troop of their followers to exact what they called tribute, but what those who had to pay it called plunder, from the merchants or travellers whom they saw from the windows of their watchtowers, passing up and down.
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