Tribunal

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.