homage

CEFRC1

/ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Public respect or honor shown to someone or something.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.

Examples

  • A discreet homage to the accident victims was carried out yesterday.

  • Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/
  • /ˈhɒmɑːʒ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.

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

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To pay reverence to by external action.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Origin

noun

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/.