Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Formal acknowledgment by a vassal of allegiance to his lord under feudal law.
- noun Special honor or respect shown or expressed publicly. synonym: honor.
- noun Something created or done in honor, admiration, or celebration of someone or something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To profess fealty to; pay respect to by external action; reverence.
- To cause to pay homage; bring under subjection.
- To pay respect; profess fealty.
- noun In feudal law, an admission or acknowledgment to the lord of tenure under him; the public ceremony that bound the vassal to the lord, whose man he thereupon became, and of whom he held the land for which he was to render his service.
- noun Respect or reverence paid by external action; obeisance; respectful or reverential regard; deferential feeling; reverence.
- noun The copyholders or tenants of a manor in attendance to do their duty in a court-baron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Feud. Law) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his
man , or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign. - noun Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.
- noun Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection.
- transitive verb rare To pay reverence to by external action.
- transitive verb obsolete To cause to pay homage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical In
feudalism , the formaloath of avassal to honor his or herlord 's rights. - noun A
demonstration ofrespect , such as towards an individual after their retirement or death - noun An
artistic workimitating another in aflattering style. Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɒːʒ/ has been introduced from French for this usage; seehommage , which preserves the French spelling. - verb obsolete To pay
reverence to by external action. - verb obsolete To cause to pay homage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun respectful deference
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Acknowledging the source and not relying on it too heavily comes under the term homage in my book - thus the protagonist in MSFU watching Chinatown on TV is in that realm - though a little too close to the source.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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One man grabbed him, Mr. Garr recalls, and said he couldn't prevent them from making such a display, which they called a homage to the dead man.
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By that I mean by paying homage is to stay close to the story, to also have the makeup be a big component, have the actor in the makeup being a big part of the movie and they liked the idea.
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A homage is planned later this month in a criterium in Oviedo in his native Asturias in northern Spain.
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The Dakota on the West Side looks on with its imperial gaze as stately mansions on avenue 5 pay homage from the east.
Jack Schimmelman: Central Park . . . a performance in four seasons (Autumn) Jack Schimmelman 2010
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People who study complexity refer to these moments as lever points in homage to Archimedes, who said that if he had a lever to stand on, that he could raise the world.
Scott Page: I Am, I Am, I Am 'Superman.' And So Are You! Scott Page 2010
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One guy who should pay serious homage is Weird Al - look what Jackson did for him.
Maybe I'm just a cold-hearted jerk Tyler 2009
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We are glad to host this evening of some of America's finest fantasy authors in homage to an unclassifiable master of the weird, H.P. Lovecraft.
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One such Tolkenian homage is his book The Science of Middle Earth; he's talking about that on 13 April at Cromer library.
Writing Maxine 2009
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People who study complexity refer to these moments as lever points in homage to Archimedes, who said that if he had a lever to stand on, that he could raise the world.
Scott Page: I Am, I Am, I Am 'Superman.' And So Are You! Scott Page 2010
uselessness commented on the word homage
noun. hohm-ij. The magnitude of one's personal abode.
January 3, 2007
brtom commented on the word homage
"Whose judgment scorns the homage flattery pays!"
Sheridan, School for Scandal
January 2, 2008