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Definition: Homage |
HomageNoun1. Respectful deference; "pay court to the emperor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Homage was made to the Lord to be in the order of faith and security. The servant vassal activity to the Lord was homage. It denotes a client's oath to the king. It is the reverential submission or respect. It was paying reverence to a sovergien by external action.It was the 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. It is the respect and reverential regard to the sovergien of the land, paid by external action and obediance.
Ceremony
Knights did homage to the lord. Afterwards they would take up their fiefs and offices and whatever they had rightfully and legitimately obtained. Homage was the act of a feudal tenant by which he declared himself, on his knees, to be the hommage or bondman of the lord.
First, the lord asked if the knight was willing to become completely his man. The knight replied, "I am willing". Then clasping hands, the knights's surrounded by the hands of the lord, they were bound together by a kiss.
Secondly, the knight gave his fealty to the representative of the lord in these words, "I promise on my faith that I will in the future be faithful to the Lord, and will observe my homage to him completely against all persons in good faith and without deceit."
Thirdly, The knight took his oath to this upon the relics of the saints.
The Lord gave investitures to all who by this agreement had given their security and oath.
See also
- Fealty, allegiance, bond, call of duty, charge, responsibility, duty, good faith, honor, line of duty, mission, presenting arms, service.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Homage."
Synonym: HomageSynonym: court (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Commendation, praise; laud, laudation; good word; meed of praise, tribute of praise; encomium; eulogy, eulogium; eloge, panegyric; homage, hero worship; benediction, blessing, benison. |
Courtesy | Visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit; (sociability); dance attendance on; (servility); pay attentions to; do homage to; (respect). |
Falsehood | Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti. |
Flattery | Voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness; Adjective: |
Obedience | Allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy, fidelity. |
Respect | Verb: respect, regard; revere, reverence; hold in reverence, honor, venerate, hallow; esteem; (approve of); think much of; entertain respect for, bear respect for; look up to, defer to; have a high opinion of, hold a high opinion of; pay attention, pay respect; n. to; do honor to, render honor to; do the honors, hail; show courtesy; salute, present arms; do homage to, pay homage to; pay tribute to, kneel to, bow to, bend the knee to; fall down before, prostrate oneself, kiss the hem of one's garment; worship. |
Homage, fealty, obeisance, genuflection, kneeling prostration; obsequiousness; salaam, kowtow, bow, presenting arms, salute. | |
Submission | Obey; kneel to, bow to, pay homage to, cringe to, truckle to; bend the neck, bend the knee; kneel, fall on one's knees, bow submission, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow. |
Obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration. | |
Worship | Verb: worship, lift up the heart, aspire; revere; adore, do service, pay homage; humble oneself, kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee; fall down, fall on one's knees; prostrate oneself, bow down and worship. |
Noun: worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation; kneeling, genuflection, prostration. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Homage |
| English words defined with "homage": Attornment ♦ Fee farm ♦ Homageable, Homaged, Homager, Homaging ♦ Liege homage ♦ Manrent ♦ Peace offering, praise ♦ Testification, To pay one's duty. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "homage": Deputations ♦ FOLLY ♦ King Ryence ♦ Lip Homage, looking ♦ Magricio ♦ Ovation ♦ Seraiah ♦ tortoise. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "homage": Humation. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Homage to the Teacher (1967) Taking a Line for a Walk: A Homage to the Work of Paul Klee (1983) | |
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 | Pollywog paying homage to King Neptune during Equator crossing ceremony. After passing all the necessary tests, the pollywog will become a bona fide Shellback and able to initiate pollywogs during future ceremonies. Ceremony on NOAA Ship DAVID STARR JORDAN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | [Paying homage to the deity who banished measles]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Homage to workers, September 11, 2001 / Adam Pitt. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Statues and sculpture. Homage to Immortality in the King David Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But submitting to the laws of any country, living quietly, and enjoying privileges and protection under them, makes not a man a member of that society: this is only a local protection and homage due to and from all those, who, not being in a state of war, come within the territories belonging to any government, to all parts whereof the force of its laws extends. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Civil Liberties | Burma | State-controlled news media frequently depict junta members paying homage to Buddhist monks, making donations at pagodas throughout the country, officiating at ceremonies to open, improve, restore, or maintain pagodas, and organizing ostensibly voluntary "people's donations" of money, food, and uncompensated labor to build or refurbish Buddhist religious shrines throughout the country. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. |
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| "Homage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.78% of the time. "Homage" is used about 447 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.78% | 446 | 12,998 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 447 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "homage": do homage ♦ do homage to ♦ Liege homage ♦ pay homage to ♦ pay homage to smb.. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "homage": homage-giving, homage-makers, homage-taking. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
homage | 25 |
homage to catalonia | 11 |
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hip homage | 6 |
albers glow homage square | 4 |
courteney cox homage | 4 |
comic homage | 4 |
raquel darrian homage | 3 |
blues empress homage | 3 |
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racquel darrian homage page | 3 |
bradstreet homage mistress | 3 |
homage square | 2 |
catalonia homage summary | 2 |
racquel darrian homage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "homage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | homazh, nderim (compliments, consideration, credit, curtsey, curtsy, deference, devoirs, distinction, esteem, estimation, honor, honour, obeisance, respect, respectability, respectfulness, reverence, salute, veneration), blatim besnikërie e nënshtrimi. (various references) | |
Arabic | البيعة, إحترام (consideration, courtesy, deference, esteem, estimation, honor, honour, obeisance, prestige, regard, reputability, respect, respects, reverence), إجلال (honor, honour, respect, solemnity, tribute). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уважение (admiration, consideration, credit, deference, duty, esteem, estimation, honor, honour, obeisance, observance, piety, regard, respect, reverence, worship), зачитане (regard, respect), почит (esteem, honor, honour, obeisance, regard, respect, reverence, worship). (various references) | |
Chinese | 尊敬 (respect, Revere, reverence). (various references) | |
Czech | hold (obeisance, tribute), slib vìrnosti, pocta (compliment, honor, honour). (various references) | |
Dutch | hulde (honor, honour), eerbetoon (accolade), eed van trouw (loyalty oath, oath of allegiance). (various references) | |
Esperanto | omaĝo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | trygdarheiti, trygdareiður, ognan. (various references) | |
Farsi | تجلیل (Celebration, Kudos), بیعت (Allegiance). (various references) | |
Finnish | kunnioituksen osoitus (tribute), kunnianosoitus (honour). (various references) | |
French | hommage. (various references) | |
German | huldigung (obeisance, tribute). (various references) | |
Greek | σέβασ (awe, regard, respect, reverence), υποταγή (submission), φόροσ τιμήσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | יראת כבוד (awe, respect, reverence, veneration), כבוד (honour), הצהרת כבוד. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mély tisztelet (high respect), hódolat (obeisance, reverence, veneration), hűbéri eskü. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penghormatan (accolade, reverence), bayat (freshman), bakti (faith, filial piety, service, staunch). (various references) | |
Italian | omaggio (compliments, free sample, gift, give away, hommage, obeisance, regards, respects, tribute). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 参詣 (pilgrimage, temple or shrine visit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さんけい (mountain path, mountain range, mountain system, pilgrimage, temple or shrine visit, three famous beauty spots). (various references) | |
Manx | fomys (allegiance, obeisance, submission), ammys (allegiance, respect). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hyllest. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omagehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homenagem (curtsey, curtsy, honor, honour, obeisance, tribute). (various references) | |
Romanian | respect (consideration, deference, duty, esteem, estimation, obeisance, observance, observancy, regard, respect, reverence), onor, omagiu (gift, tribute), ofrandã (alms, donation, gift, holocaust, offering, offerings, sacrifice), atenţie (attention). (various references) | |
Russian | уважение (deference), почтение (obeisance), почесть. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vazalska dužnost, odavanje pošte. (various references) | |
Spanish | homenaje (honor, honour). (various references) | |
Swedish | hyllning (tribute). (various references) | |
Thai | การคารวะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | hürmet (deference, honor, honour, obeisance, regard, respect, reverence, tribute, veneration), saygı (compliment, consideration, deference, esteem, estimation, obeisance, piety, regard, respect, veneration), egemenliğini kabul etme, bağlılık (adherence, adhesion, allegiance, attachment, cementation, cohesion, cohesiveness, constancy, correlation, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, interdependence, interdependency, loyalty, obedience, singleness, subordination, troth). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шанобливість (respectfulness), пошана (credit, deference, kudos, obeisance), повага (credit, deference, esteem, estimation, obeisance, regard, respect, respectfulness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tôn kính (cult, deference, duty, reverence, veneration). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwrogaeth (allegiance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fidelitas. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | homage. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homage": homaged, homager, homagers, homages. (additional references) | |
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"Homage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gommage, Henige, Himeji, hoag, hoage, hoamie, hocage, homa, homade, homagei, homagy, homane, Homape, homeage, homg, homig, hommage, Hommages, huage, nomage, omage, omagiu, pomage, Pomagne, Shonagh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "homage" (pronounced Ä"muj or hÄ"muj) |
| 3 | -m u j | damage, image, pilgrimage, plumage. |
| 3 | -m u j | damage, image, pilgrimage, plumage. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ohmage. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-m-o" | |
-1 letter: mahoe, ogham, omega. | |
-2 letters: ahem, game, haem, hame, home, mage, ogam. | |
-3 letters: age, ago, ego, gae, gam, gem, goa, hae, hag, ham, hao, hem, hoe, hog, mae, mag, meg, mho, moa, mog, ohm. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ah, am, eh, em, go, ha, he, hm, ho, ma, me, mo, oe, oh, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-m-o" | |
+1 letter: hemagog, hogmane, homaged, homager, homages, ohmages. | |
+2 letters: apothegm, echogram, hemagogs, hogmanes, hogmenay, homagers. | |
+3 letters: apothegms, cheongsam, echograms, hectogram, hogmenays, megaphone. | |
+4 letters: anemograph, apophthegm, cheongsams, demography, geothermal, gramophone, hatemonger, hectograms, hemangioma, hematology, hemorrhage, heterogamy, hologamies, homemaking, homogamies, homogenate, homologate, largemouth, macrophage, mahoganies, megaphoned, megaphones, megaphonic, microphage, mimeograph, omophagies, phanerogam, phlebogram, thermogram. | |
+5 letters: anemographs, apophthegms, archegonium, demographer, demographic, dichogamies, earthmoving, gametophore, gametophyte, geochemical, gramophones, grandmother, hatemongers, hemangiomas, hematologic, hemorrhaged, hemorrhages, hemorrhagic, homemakings, homogametic, homogenates, homologated, homologates, largemouths, logomachies, macrophages, megaphoning, menorrhagia, microphages, mimeographs, monographed, monophagies, mycophagies, phanerogams, phlebograms, pneumograph, seismograph, semaphoring, thermograms, thermograph, thigmotaxes. | |
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