- [uncountable, countable] tribute (to somebody) an act, a statement or a gift that is intended to show your love or respect, especially for a dead person
- At her funeral her oldest friend paid tribute to her life and work.
- The crowd stood in silent tribute to those who had died in the war.
- This book is a fitting tribute to the bravery of the pioneers.
- floral tributes (= gifts of flowers at a funeral)
Extra Examples- The President led the tributes to ‘a great statesman and a decent man’.
- Tributes flooded in when her death was announced.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- anniversary
- birthday
- memorial
- …
- pay
- give
- write
- …
- flood in
- pour in
- album
- concert
- show
- …
- [singular] tribute to something/somebody showing the good effects or influence of something/somebody
- His recovery is a tribute to the doctors' skill.
- The bridge is a remarkable tribute to the skill of the Victorian railway engineers.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- remarkable
- tribute to
- [uncountable, countable] (especially in the past) money given by one country or political leader to another, especially in return for protection or for not being attacked
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (3)): from Latin tributum, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of tribuere ‘assign’ (originally ‘divide between tribes’), from tribus ‘tribe’.
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