meaning of tributary

1. Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
2.
Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
3.
Paid in tribute.
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
7.
a branch that flows into the main stream


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