tribune

From Middle English tribune, from Old French tribun, tribune, from Latin tribunus, related to tribus (“tribe”) (from its original sense of "leader of a tribe").

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪbjuːn/, /tɹɪˈbjuːn/

tribune (plural tribunes)

1. An elected official in Ancient Rome.
2. A protector of the people.
3. The domed or vaulted apse in a Christian church that houses the bishop's throne.
4. A place or an opportunity to speak, to express one's opinion; a platform or pulpit.

   The new magazine's goal is to give a tribune to unmarried mothers.

• tuberin, turbine

From Italian tribuna.

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.byn/

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• Rhymes: -yn

tribune f (plural tribunes)

1. platform, rostrum, podium
2. stand, grandstand
3. (architecture) gallery

• (platform): estrade

• “tribune” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• butiner, turbine, turbiné

tribune f

1. plural of tribuna

• brunite, turbine

tribūne

1. vocative singular of tribūnus

• trybune, tribun

From Old French tribun, tribune, from Latin tribūnus.

• IPA^(key): /triˈbiu̯n/

tribune (plural tribunes or tribuni)

1. A Roman military tribune or similar leader of a thousand soldiers.
2. A Roman plebeian tribune or similar leader of a thousand civilians.

• English: tribune

• “tribūn(e, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-30.

From Latin tribunal, via French tribune

tribune m (definite singular tribunen, indefinite plural tribuner, definite plural tribunene)

1. a stand or grandstand

• “tribune” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin tribunal, via French tribune

tribune m (definite singular tribunen, indefinite plural tribunar, definite plural tribunane)

1. a stand or grandstand

• “tribune” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.