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pays homage to

pays homage to is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pays homage to

What is pays homage to the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pays homage to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay homage to.

Words near pays homage to in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pays 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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