tribunal

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tri=bu=nal

CIDE DICTIONARY

tribunal, n. [L. tribunal, fr. tribunus a tribune who administered justice: cf. F. tribunal. See Tribune.].

•  The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.  [1913 Webster]

tribunal, n. [Sp.].

 In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tribunal, n.
1 Brit. a board appointed to adjudicate in some matter, esp. one appointed by the government to investigate a matter of public concern.
2 a court of justice.
3 a seat or bench for a judge or judges.
4 a a place of judgement. b judicial authority (the tribunal of public opinion).

Etymology

F tribunal or L tribunus (as TRIBUNE(2))

THESAURUS

tribunal

British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, assembly, association, balcony, bar, bench, board, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, cabinet, camarilla, catafalque, chamber, city council, common council, conference, congress, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, court of justice, curial, dais, deliberative assembly, diet, directory, divan, emplacement, estrade, floor, gallery, heliport, hustings, judicial, judiciary, junta, kitchen cabinet, landing, landing pad, landing stage, launching pad, legislature, parish council, platform, podium, privy council, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, soviet, staff, stage, step terrace, stump, syndicate, synod, terrace, tribune

ROGET THESAURUS

tribunal

Legality

N legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, legislature, law, code, corpus juris, constitution, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule, canon, ordinance, institution, regulation, bylaw, byelaw, decree, ordonnance, standing order, plebiscite, legal process, form, formula, formality, rite, arm of the law, habeas corpus, fieri facias, jurisprudence, nomology, legislation, codification, equity, common law, lex, lex nonscripta, law of nations, droit des gens, international law, jus gentium, jus civile, civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law, lex mercatoria, constitutionalism, constitutionality, justice, court, tribunal, judge, lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, legal, legitimate, according to law, vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized, lawful, statutable, statutory, legislatorial, legislative, regulatory, regulated, legally, in the eye of the law, de jure, ignorantia legis neminem excusat, ignorance of the law is no excuse, where law ends tyranny begins.

Jurisdiction

N jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc, executive, commission of the peace, magistracy, judge, tribunal, municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty, lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable, selectman, police, police force, the fuzz, constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie, officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle, policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant, sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel, tithingman, press gang, exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier, coroner, edile, aedile, portreeve, paritor, posse comitatus, bureau, cutcherry, department, secretariat, long arm of the law, extradition, executive, administrative, municipal, inquisitorial, causidical, judicatory, judiciary, judicial, juridical, coram judice.

Tribunal

N tribunal, court, board, bench, judicatory, court of justice, court of law, court of arbitration, administrative court, inquisition, guild, justice seat, judgment seat, mercy seat, woolsack, bar of justice, dock, forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead, jury box, witness box, senate house, town hall, theater, House of Commons, House of Lords, statehouse, townhouse, assize, eyre, wardmote, burghmote, barmote, superior courts of Westminster, court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error, High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Star Chamber, Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty, Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court, sessions, quarter sessions, petty sessions, court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council, board of green cloth, court martial, drumhead court martial, durbar, divan, Areopagus, Irota, judicial, appellate, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.