Definitions for homage

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homage hom·age

Spelling: [hom-ij, om-]

IPA: /ˈhɒm ɪdʒ, ˈɒm-/

Homage is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in homage (aeghmo).

Definitions for homage

noun

1. respect or reverence paid or rendered:
2. the formal public acknowledgment by which a feudal tenant or vassal declared himself to be the man or vassal of his lord, owing him fealty and service.
3. the relation thus established of a vassal to his lord.
4. something done or given in acknowledgment or consideration of the worth of another:

Origin of homage

1250-1300; Middle English (h)omage Old French, equivalent to (h)ome man (Latin hominem, accusative of homō; see Homo) + -age -age

Examples for homage

Under the same degree of homage are the nation of the Mattiacians.

"I desired to offer my homage to your Eminence," said the young man.

She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them a quick look.

You prayed, if that's the word; but your homage was as personal and idiosyncratic as the note you shoved into it.

homage to soccer, celebration of its lights, denunciation of its shadows.

This photograph references Voodoo and is homage to African slaves.

The collection became an homage to "playful curiosities" from across the decades, including the Twenties, Thirties, and Fifties.

Ask the lover who kneels in homage to one who has no attractions for others.

Brian Eno was the first one invited to do the soundtrack; after all, the film was intended as an homage to Andy Warhol.

I kneeled—I am ashamed to confess it—to do homage to the empty armour.