Found 2 items, similar to Tribunal.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: tribunal tribunal n : an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business [syn: court, judicature]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Tribunal Tribunal \Tri*bu"nal\, n. [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. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom. [1913 Webster] Tribunal \Tri`bu*nal"\, 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.]