Dictionary Entry
tributary
tributary is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
- 2adjective
Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
- 3adjective
Paid in tribute.
- 4adjective
Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
- 5noun
A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
- 6noun
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
- 7noun
a branch that flows into the main stream
- 8adjective
tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
"working conditions are not conducive to productivity"
"the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city"
- 9adjective
paying tribute
"a tributary colony"
- 10adjective
(of a stream) flowing into a larger stream
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