What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Tribute vs Tribulation - What's the difference?

tribute | tribulation |

As nouns the difference between tribute and tribulation

is that tribute is an acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift while tribulation is any adversity; a trying period or event.

As a verb tribute

is to pay as tribute.

As a proper noun Tribulation is

a relatively short period of time before the second coming where believers will experience worldwide persecution and be purified and strengthened by it.

tribute

English

(wikipedia tribute)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
    • Please accept this as a tribute of our thanks.
  • * Gray
    • the passing tribute of a sigh
  • A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
    • The Ancient Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute .
  • Extortion; protection money.
  • A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
  • (mining) A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.
    • (Pryce)
    (Tomlinson)

    Synonyms

    *

    Related terms

    * tribe * tribal

    Verb

    (tribut)
  • To pay as tribute.

    • External links

    * * ----

    tribulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any adversity; a trying period or event.
  • * 1535 , , Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation , ch. 6:
    • For the blessed apostle himself in his sore tribulation', praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God (in a manner) that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that '''tribulation''' to strengthen him was far better for him than to take that ' tribulation from him.
  • * 1847 , , Omoo , ch. 11:
    • Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.
  • * 1944 June 27, , Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican National Convention:
    • It is youth who must inherit the tribulation , the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
  • * 2009 Sept. 24, , " Kristina'': A New Musical from the ABBA Guys," ''New York Times (retrieved 12 March 2014):
    • Essentially stoic, passive characters, Kristina and the others triumph by surviving — by outliving their plagues and tribulations .

    External links

    * *