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How to pronounce “tributary”
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Pronunciation guide for tributary
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tributary with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
tributary every time you're walking
- Definition summary
- (hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce tributary
Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

tributary every time you're walking
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tributary”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
- (anatomy) A vein which drains into another vein.
- A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
- [Adjective]
- Related to the paying of tribute.
- Subordinate; inferior.
- Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.
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Similar Sounds
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