What does homage mean?
Homage means (countable, uncountable) A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death..
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/ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
(countable, uncountable) 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.
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.
We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, / Love thee as our commander and our king.
The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams
Use homage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Homage means (countable, uncountable) A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death..
Common synonyms include salute, tribute, manred, court.
Possible antonyms include insult.
I ſought no homage from the Race that vvrite; / I kept, like Aſian Monarchs, from their ſight: […]
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