tribute

n.

1. Recognition

   encomium, applause, memorial service, offering, eulogy, panegyric; see also praise 2, recognition 2.

2. Money paid a conqueror

   ransom, fee, levy; see bribe.

tribute, the broadest in scope of these words, is used of praise manifested by any act, situation, etc. as well as that expressed in speech or writing their success was a tribute to your leadership; encomium suggests an enthusiastic, sometimes high-flown expression of praise encomiums lavished on party leaders at a convention; eulogy generally applies to a formal speech or writing in exalting praise, especially of a person who has just died; panegyric suggests superlative or elaborate praise expressed in poetic or lofty language Cicero's panegyric upon Cato