homage

noun

1. (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.”

2. (countable)An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.

   “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.”

3. (countable, historical, uncountable)In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.

   “We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, / Love thee as our commander and our king.”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To pay reverence to by external action.
2. (obsolete, transitive)To cause to pay homage.

   “The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams”