From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tribunal \Tri*bu"nal\, noun [L. tribunal, fr. tribunus a tribune who administered justice: cf. F. tribunal. See {Tribune}.]
1. The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
2. Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tribunal \Tri'bu*nal"\, noun [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.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business [syn: {court}, {judicature}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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