Tributary is valid Scrabble Word

Is tributary a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for TRIBUTARY in dictionary:

NOUN:

a river that joins another river
a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake
a person or state that pays tribute to another state or ruler
stream or river flowing into a larger one
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.
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
a branch that flows into the main stream

ADJECTIVE:

paying tribute
Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.

Paid in tribute.
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.
(of a stream) flowing into a larger stream
tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
(of a stream or river) flowing into a larger one

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

paying tribute to another to acknowledge submission, to obtain protection, or to purchase peac; subject

Words related to TRIBUTARY

tributaries13 tributarily16

Words that contain TRIBUTARY

contributary19 distributary18

How to use TRIBUTARY in a sentence

Polybius says that many people there became tributary to the Gauls, and that this was the case with the Umbrians is quite certain.
Passing eastward a little, there are the heights behind the city of Rheims and above the Vesle, a tributary of the Aisne.
This social and commercial policy is controlled by six companies, to one of which every Chinaman in the country owes allegiance and is tributary.
A quarter of a mile up the river brought us to a fine tributary from the south, running strong enough to supply a large mill.
With great difficulty we followed the river upwards, and were compelled to follow up a tributary creek for about a mile, and then encamped.
The opportunities which some States would have of rendering others tributary to them by commercial regulations would be impatiently submitted to by the tributary States.
From there we proceeded up the Gury, a large tributary stream flowing into the Ganges below Rumpurbolea.
Still, during weeks last winter, the Atlanta markets did not show a single carcass of mutton, notwithstanding the great extent of country tributary to it by means of her railways.
On the 1st of May, he had reached La Bonte, a tributary of the North Platte, fifty miles from the Fort.
We can imagine a Court of Arbitration intervening in the quarrels of the separate tributary countries when an empire like the Roman Empire existed.

She passed the mouth of the small tributary upon which she had first seen Chloe.
Not far from Novgorod, on and about the shores of the Baltic, were various tributary Slav tribes, mingled with pagan Finns.
Cook and party were now halted at a Mexican village on the Rio Chama, a tributary of the Rio Grande or del Norte.
It lies on the Allan, a left-hand tributary of the Forth, 3 m.
In twelve hours we entered the Teffe, a tributary from the Bolivian mountains.
Bulgaria became a self-governing state, tributary to the sultan.
The Volga, however, has nothing of the wild, erratic instincts of its tributary.
The Buford herds would strike due north from the first tributary putting in from above, which we would intercept the second morning out.
Dick Sand hoped that it would soon become navigable, or that it would before long reach a more important river, tributary to the Atlantic.
Lawrence River and its tributary lakes and streams, influenced French voyagers and explorers well into the middle of the eighteenth century.
The Tirurey or Ytilurey River of our text apparently indicates a southern tributary of the Rio Grande, flowing from Mt.
It was quite dark on the evening of the 26th, before I reached the inn near the head of the little valley of the Wollombi, a tributary to the river Hunter.
Across the canon, opposite the hotel, is a little tributary of the Colorado called Bright Angel Creek.
The second night we camped on a little stream which was a tributary to Snake river.
Upon a tributary of the Muskingong, called the Tuscarwawas, a settlement was founded.
In our rear hung the mountains with their sentinel peaks, while in our front stretched the valley tributary to the Yellowstone, in extent, itself, an inland empire.
The absence of snow, during the storm, had held the antelope tributary to the Beaver, and locating game was an easy matter.
They then helped Potidaea, a Corinthian colony, but an Athenian tributary, to revolt from Athens.
It came in first as tributary, purchasing, by an annual contribution, peace with Russia and protection.
The boundaries of Russia were thus enlarged, and Sweden became almost a tributary province of the gigantic empire.

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