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say it: TRI-byoot
tribute is a noun meaning "something given or done as an expression of esteem". It carries 3 recorded senses.
something given or done as an expression of esteem
payment by one nation for protection by another
payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
“every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tribute come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.