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homage

Syllables: hom·ageUK/ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ//(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/

homage noun: a demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.

Noun

homage (countable and uncountable, plural homages)

  1. A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
    • I ſought no homage from the Race that vvrite; / I kept, like Aſian Monarchs, from their ſight: […]1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 11, lines 214–215
    • 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.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    salute, tribute
    Antonyms:
    insult
  2. (countable) An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.
    • 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.2002, Kevin Williamson, Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 6.01)
  3. (historical) In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.
    • We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, / Love thee as our commander and our king.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    Synonyms:
    manred

Verb

homage (third-person singular simple present homages, present participle homaging, simple past and past participle homaged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pay reverence to by external action.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to pay homage.
    • The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams1641, Abraham Cowley, A Poem on the Civil War

homage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

homage in Hindi

demonstration of respect
श्रद्धांजलि śraddhāñjli

homage in Tamil

வணக்கமுறை, வணக்கம், வழிபாடு, அஞ்சலி

homage in Marathi

होमॅजिंग

homage in Urdu

احترام, خراج, کورنش
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homage in Bengali
শ্রদ্ধাঞ্জলি, সম্মান প্রদর্শন, আনুগত্য স্বীকার
homage in Telugu
ప్రణామము praṇāmamu, సేవ sēva
homage in Malayalam
ആരാധന ārādhana
homage in Kannada
ಉಪಚರಣ, ಉಪಚಾರ
homage in Sanskrit
मनन manána
homage in Nepali
होमाजिङ
homage in Arabic
تَكْرِيم takrīm

Examples of homage in a sentence

  • Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.
  • Finally, the newly crowned monarch received the homage of his leading subjects.
  • For centuries, emperors climbed it to pay homage to heaven and earth.

All 34 example sentences with homage

Synonyms of homage

Antonyms

Forms of homage

Noun
pluralhomages
Verb
third-person singular presenthomages
present participlehomaging
past participlehomaged
pasthomaged

Plural of homage: homages

Origin of homage

From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from Latin homō (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”) + -āticum (noun-forming suffix). The American pronunciations in /-ɑːʒ/ and with silent h are due to confusion with the nearly synonymous doublet hommage, which is indeed pronounced /oʊˈmɑːʒ/.

Words formed from homage

Phrases with homage

Words that rhyme with homage

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Questions about homage

What does homage mean?
Homage means a demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
What is homage in Hindi?
Homage in Hindi is श्रद्धांजलि (śraddhāñjli). See Homage meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is homage?
Homage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce homage?
Homage is pronounced /ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of homage?
The plural of homage is homages.

Words near homage in the dictionary

  1. hom.
  2. homa
  3. homacanth
  4. homacodontid
  5. homacodontids
  6. homage
  7. homageable
  8. homaged
  9. homager
  10. homagers
  11. homages

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: homage (page history and authors); homage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); homage (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Homage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ప్రణామము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ആരാധന (Malayalam) (page history and authors); homage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); मनन (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); homage (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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