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homage
Meaning: public respect or honor shown to someone or something
homage in a sentence
How homage is used in real sentences:
The mural pays homage to the workers who rebuilt the city.
The novel's opening scene is an homage to the author's favorite childhood story.
“When the museum revised its display, it presented the original notebook beside the scans as homage to Venn’s disciplined uncertainty, rather than to the discarded theory.”
— from the passage The Bone That Would Not Settle
Synonyms for homage
Other words for homage — tribute, honor and reverence — carry the same meaning.
- tribute
- honor
- reverence
Antonyms of homage
Words that mean the opposite of homage:
- disrespect
- contempt
- scorn
Where it comes from
From Old French hommage, meaning 'a pledge of loyalty or respect.'
Memory hook
HOMAGE begins like HONOR: both involve showing respect.