tributary
Meaning of tributary
noun
- A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
- A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
- Related to the paying of tribute.
- Subordinate; inferior
- Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.
The Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
Information about tributary
- The plural form of tributary is: tributaries.
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Hyphenation of tributary
trib-u-tary
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- tributary is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
tributary synonyms
Meaning conducive:
conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory
Meaning feeder:
Translation of tributary
- German: Zufluss
- French: affluent, tributaire
- Italian: tributario
- Spanish: tributario, afluente, tributaria
- Portuguese: afluente
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