HOMAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homage mean? 

• HOMAGE (noun)
  The noun HOMAGE has 1 sense:

1. respectful deference

  Familiarity information: HOMAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Respectful deference

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

court; homage

Context example:

pay court to the emperor

Hypernyms ("homage" is a kind of...):

deference; respect (a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard)

 Context examples 

Then, at his order, the whole tribe lay down upon the ground before us in homage.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet, wretched cripple as I made myself by this act of homage to Dora, I walked miles upon miles daily in the hope of seeing her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth, and grace—for never to any one else shall I seem to possess these charms.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A flush of colour sprang to Holmes’s pale cheeks, and he bowed to us like the master dramatist who receives the homage of his audience.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is your year, and this month you will begin to feel what it’s like to have almost all the planets in the universe pay homage to you, dear Capricorn, for you are the celestial favorite.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is something for a woman to be assured, in her eight-and-twentieth year, that she has not lost one charm of earlier youth; but the value of such homage was inexpressibly increased to Anne, by comparing it with former words, and feeling it to be the result, not the cause of a revival of his warm attachment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That a man of the world, five-and-forty years of age, shrewd, honest, and acquainted with Courts, should be beguiled by such crude and coarse homage, amazed me, as it did all who knew him; but you who have seen much of life do not need to be told how often the strongest and noblest nature has its one inexplicable weakness, showing up the more obviously in contrast to the rest, as the dark stain looks the fouler upon the whitest sheet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My young heart had no room in its homage for any such poor reference.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I will suffer no competitor near the throne; I shall exact an undivided homage: his devotions shall not be shared between me and the shape he sees in his mirror.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My homage to Miss Wickfield, is a flight of arrows in my bosom.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)