Tribute vs Acclaim - What's the difference?
tribute | acclaim |
An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
* Gray
A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
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.
To pay as tribute.
(archaic) To shout; to call out.
To shout approval; to express great approval.
* 1911 , (Saki), The Chronicles of Clovis
*:The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece.
(rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
* A glad acclaiming train. - Thomson
(obsolete) To claim.
To declare by acclamations.
* While the shouting crowd / Acclaims thee king of traitors. - Smollett
(Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
As verbs the difference between tribute and acclaim
is that tribute is while acclaim is (archaic|transitive) to shout; to call out.As a noun acclaim is
(poetic) an acclamation; a shout of applause.tribute
English
(wikipedia tribute)Noun
(en noun)- Please accept this as a tribute of our thanks.
- the passing tribute of a sigh
- The Ancient Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute .
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