Meaning of homage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death
2. A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
   countable, uncountable
3. An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.
   countable
4. Great respect or high public esteem accorded as a right or as due:deference, honor, obeisance.
5. An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style
6. In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.
   countable, historical, uncountable
7. (a sign of) great respect shown to a person. We pay homage to this great man by laying a wreath yearly on his grave. hulde إكْرام، إحْتِرام уважение homenagem hold, pocta huldigen hyldest φόρος τιμής homenaje austusavaldus احترام kunnianosoitus hommage מֶחֱווָה שֶׁל כָּבוֹד श्रद्धांजलि iskazivanje odanosti; štovanje hódolat penghormatan virðing, lotning; virðingarvottur omaggio 敬意 존경 pagarba cieņa; godbijība penghormatan hommage, eerbewijshyllesthołd احترام homenagem omagiu почтение hold pokl...
8. In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights
9. Formal acknowledgment by a vassal of allegiance to his lord under feudal law.
10. To pay reverence to by external action
11. Special honor or respect shown or expressed publicly. See Synonyms at honor.
12. To cause to pay homage
13. a public show of respect or honour towards someone or something (esp in the phrases pay or do homage to)
    or
14. (Historical Terms) (in feudal society)a. the act of respect and allegiance made by a vassal to his lord. See also fealty
15. archaic or poetic to render homage to
    archaic
16. respect; reverence: to pay homage to one's forebears.
17. the formal acknowledgment by a feudal vassal of fealty to his lord.
18. something acknowledging the worth of another: a festschrift presented as an homage to a great teacher.

Equivalents

Examples

“I ſought no homage from the Race that vvrite; / I kept, like Aſian Monarchs, from their ſight: […]”

“When a man squeezes the hand of a pretty woman, […] she will consider such an impertinent freedom in the light of an insult, if she have any true delicacy, instead of being flattered by this unmeaning homage to beauty.”

“It’s appropriate that we pay homage to them and the sacrifices they made.”

“My rainy-day tour in April during the first lockdown was, in fact, a homage to Sir John Betjeman - the poet and railway campaigner whose statue can be found on the upper concourse of St Pancras station.”

“He likes to tell people that it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but that's kind of like saying Happy Gilmore is a homage to Woody Allen.”

“We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, / Love thee as our commander and our king.”

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