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Definition of Tribune
1. Noun. (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests.
Generic synonyms: Defender, Guardian, Protector, Shielder
Category relationships: Antiquity
2. Noun. The apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne.
Definition of Tribune
1. n. An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.
Definition of Tribune
1. Noun. an elected official in ancient Rome ¹
2. Noun. a protector of the people ¹
3. Noun. the domed or vaulted apse in a Christian church that houses the bishop’s throne ¹
4. Noun. a place or an opportunity to speak, to express one's opinion, a platform ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tribune
1. a defender of the rights of the people [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribune
Literary usage of Tribune
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1902)
"tribune almanac and political register. V.lfU. 20th century ed. ... tribune Assw'n.
NY tribune cartoon book for 1901. Bowman. K. С pa. 25c. tribune Ptg. Co. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1900)
"... the purple of two cardinals his uncles, a recent marriage, and a mortal disease,
were disregarded by the inflexible tribune, who had chosen his victim. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"VENUS OF THE tribune, Titian, tribune of the Uffizi, Florence ; canvas, life- size.
Supposed by some to be the portrait of a mistress of Guidobaldo IL, ..."
4. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1881)
"In this character, and with the consent of the Romans, the tribune enacted the
most salutary laws for the restoration pristini (leg. prima,1 ..."
5. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1918)
"The circulation of the tribune in 1850 was, all told, a little less than ...
Henry Jarvis Raymond, who began his journalistic career on the tribune and ..."
6. The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated (1870)
"The New-York Weekly tribune Contains the important Editorials published in the
DAILY tribune, ... As a Family Newspaper THE WEEKLY tribune is pre-eminent. ..."
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