Reference > American Heritage® > Dictionary
  tribune1 tributary  
CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
tribune2
 
SYLLABICATION:trib·une
PRONUNCIATION:  trbyn, tr-byn
NOUN:1. A raised platform or dais from which a speaker addresses an assembly. 2. The usually domed or vaulted apse of a basilica. 3. See gallery (sense 3a).
ETYMOLOGY:French, from Old French, part of a church, speaking platform, from Old Italian tribuna, from Medieval Latin tribna, alteration of Latin tribnal. See tribunal.
 
 
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  tribune1 tributary  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com