Crossword-Solution: TRIBUTARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tributary | a. | Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. |
| Tributary | a. | Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. |
| Tributary | a. | Paid in tribute. |
| Tributary | a. | 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. |
| Tributary | n. | 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. |
| Tributary | n. | A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “TRIBUTARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Missouri, to Mississippi | 1 answer |
| stream or river flowing into a larger one | 1 answer |
| influent | 1 answer |
| flowing into a larger stream | 1 answer |
| Stream flowing into a river or lake | 1 answer |
| River that joins another | 1 answer |
| River that feeds a larger one | 1 answer |
| River running into another | 1 answer |
| River or stream flowing into a larger one | 1 answer |
| River into another. | 1 answer |
| River flowing into a larger one | 1 answer |
| RIVER feeder stream | 1 answer |
| Ohio to the Mississippi. | 1 answer |
| Many a headwater, relatively | 1 answer |
| Feeder stream | 1 answer |
| River feeder | 4 answers |
| Feeder | 33 answers |
| Branch | 39 answers |
| subordinate | 46 answers |
| Creek | 47 answers |
| River ___ | 51 answers |
| Waterway | 53 answers |
| Means of Access | 60 answers |
| Addition-al | 72 answers |
| Offshoot | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TRIBUTARY (5)
Anderssen rowed on as though quite sure of his ground, and when after half an hour the moon broke through the clouds there was revealed upon their left the mouth of a tributary running into the Ugambi.
How often in my schoolboy dreams, and in my waking visions afterwards, had my imagination pictured to itself the lordly stream, rolling with tumultuous current through the boundless region to which it has given its name, and gathering into itself, in its course to the ocean, the tributary waters of almost every latitude in the temperate zone! Here it was then in its reality, and I, at length, steaming against its tide.
Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
Other tributary currents crossed the mainstream, bearing their freight to the theatres, restaurants or opera; and Mrs.
But in the north half, laden with rent and porous lava, small tributary streams are rare, and the rivers, flowing for a time beneath the sky of rock, at length burst forth into the light in generous volume from seams and caverns, filtered, cool, and sparkling, as if their bondage in darkness, safe from the vicissitudes of the weather in their youth, were only a blessing.
Quotes with TRIBUTARY (3)
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.
Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to same destination
He imagined a town called A. Around the communal fire they’re shaping arrowheads and carving tributes o the god of the hunt. One day some guys with spears come over the ridge, perform all kinds of meanness, take over, and the new guys rename the town B. Whereupon they hang around the communal fire sharpening arrowheads and carving tributes to the god of the hunt. Some climatic tragedy occurs — not carving the correct tributary figurines probably — and the people of B move far…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1959–2024).