tribunal

1. 1.

   an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

   Synonymscourtjudicature

   Broaderassembly

   NarrowercourtInternational Court of Justiceappellate courtassizeschanceryconsistorycriminal courtdivorce courtfamily courtfederal court

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Other forms of tribunal

plural

tribunals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tribunal

What does tribunal mean?

tribunal means "an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business".

How many syllables are in tribunal?

tribunal has 3 syllables: tri-bu-nal. The stress falls on "bu". In IPA it is /tɹəˈbjunəl/.

What is another word for tribunal?

Close synonyms include court, judicature. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tribunal a common word?

tribunal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.