tribute

  • noun 1 an act, statement, or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration. 2 something resulting from and indicating the worth of something else: his victory was a tribute to his persistence. 3 historical payment made periodically by a state to another on which it is dependent.

  — ORIGIN Latin tributum, from tribuere ‘assign, divide between tribes’.

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