tributaryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪbjʊtəɹi/

名詞

tributary (複数形 tributaries)

2. A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.

   Synonym: affluent

3. A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii], page 259, column 2:

     An earneſt Coniuration from the King, / As England was his faithfull Tributary

関連する語

• distributary

形容詞

tributary (not comparable)

1. Related to the paying of tribute.
2. subordinate; inferior
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance)​, [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:

     to grace his tributary gods

3. 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.

関連する語

• tribute