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paid homage to

paid homage to is the simple past and past participle of pay homage to.

Meaning of pay homage to

Verb

pay homage to (third-person singular simple present pays homage to, present participle paying homage to, simple past and past participle paid homage to)

  1. (idiomatic) to show honor or respect to; to honor; to do, make or pay obeisance to
    • The pattern of services over these lines today still pays homage to their history, which derived in considerable measure from the L.B.S.C.R.'s efforts to prevent infringement of its monopoly at Brighton and Eastbourne.1960 November, H. P. White, “The evolution of train services on the Southern's Oxted line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 661

Questions about paid homage to

What is paid homage to the simple past and past participle of?
Paid homage to is the simple past and past participle of pay homage to.

Words near paid homage to in the dictionary

  1. paid for itself
  2. paid for one's whistle
  3. paid forward
  4. paid good money after bad
  5. paid heed
  6. paid homage to
  7. paid home
  8. paid it forward
  9. paid nature's debt
  10. paid no heed
  11. paid no mind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paid homage to (page history and authors); pay homage to (page history and authors). 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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