Attribute means something rather similar to "pay tribute". So, for example, an award winner who pays tribute to an inspiring professor is, in a sense, attributing her success to the professor. Though if you …

ATTRIBUTE definition: to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed byto ). See examples of attribute used in a sentence.

These concepts and psychological attributes can be identified and evaluated by educators in a process that could include student self-evaluation and validation.

An attribute is a quality or characteristic given to a person, group, or some other thing. Your best attribute might be your willingness to help others, like when you stopped traffic so the duck family …

If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation. The striker attributes the team's success to a positive ethos at the club. [VERB noun + to]

1. to regard as resulting from a specified cause: She attributes his bad temper to ill health. 2. to consider as a quality or characteristic of the person, thing, group, etc., indicated: to attribute intelligence to …

Definition of attribute noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.