HOW TO PRONOUNCE
tribunal
/tɹaɪˈbjunəl/
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try-BYOO-nuhl: stress BYOO.
The first vowel is the long i of “my.” The u after b begins with a y glide, while the last syllable has a light uh.
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“The tribunal heard testimony from three witnesses.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does tribunal mean?
noun
- An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
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noun
- (historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
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/tɹaɪˈbjunəl/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Charles Darnay, alone in a cell, had sustained himself with no flattering delusion since he came to it from the Tribunal.
He was dismissed in disgrace, and Galileo was forced to appear in the presence of the dread tribunal without defender or adviser.
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In Europe the sentence of a political tribunal is to be regarded as a judicial verdict rather than as an administrative measure.
A right royal tribunal indeed, and such a one, I warrant, as never before sat together during all the history of ancient Mars.
A Tribunal established under this Subchapter shall decide the issues in dispute in accordance with this Agreement and applicable rules of international law.