homage

nounverbattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ//
United Kingdom//ˈhɒmɑːʒ//
United Kingdom//ɒˈmɑːʒ//
United States//(h)oʊˈmɑʒ//
United States//ˈ(h)ɑmɪd͡ʒ//

A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.

noun

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: […]
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.
2
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.
3
historicalIn 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.

Etymology

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/.

verb

1
obsoleteTo pay reverence to by external action.
2
obsoleteTo cause to pay homage.
The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams

Forms

plural: homages
past tense: homaged
past participle: homaged
present participle: homaging
third person singular: homages

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