Tributary Definition

trĭbyə-tĕrē
tributaries
noun
tributaries
A tributary stream or river.
Webster's New World
A tributary nation or ruler.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Making additions or yielding supplies; contributory.
American Heritage
Owed or paid as tribute.
Webster's New World
Paying tribute.
Webster's New World
Under another's control; subject.
A tributary nation.
Webster's New World
Flowing into a larger one.
A tributary stream.
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Other Word Forms of Tributary

Noun

Singular:
tributary
Plural:
tributaries

Origin of Tributary

  • Middle English tributarie paying tribute from Latin tribūtārius from tribūtum tribute tribute

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English tributarie (“paying tribute"), from Latin tributarius, from tributum (“tribute").

    From Wiktionary

Tributary Sentence Examples

  • The duchy of Benevento remained tributary, but independent.

  • The Deerfield, West, Williams, White, Passumpsic and Nulhegan rivers are the largest of the many streams which are tributary to the Connecticut.

  • The Congo and its tributary streams are separately noticed.

  • The tributary streams entered through marshy channels.

  • Even the emperor had to be content to be treated by the sultan as an inferior and tributary prince; while France had to suffer, with no more than an idle protest, the insult of the conversion of Catholic churches at Constantinople into mosques.

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Words Starting With

TTRTRI

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YRYARY

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