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# homage

«homage» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sign of great respect for someone important, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (homages; pay homage, do homage)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Homage is a sign of great respect for someone important, often shown by bowing or kneeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homage/#m1)

2) (old use) Homage was the promise of loyalty that a knight or lord made to his king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homage/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories people bow low to show homage to a king, queen or hero; in lessons it names the respect a crowd gives a great person; phrases: pay homage, do homage

### examples

- Every one noticed him, and did him homage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homage/#x1)
- The crowds paid homage to the queen as she rode by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homage/#x2)
- The knight knelt before the king to pay homage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homage/#x3)
- Everyone in the hall bowed low in homage to the brave princess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homage/#x4)
- We sang songs of homage to our hero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homage/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Do homage in purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, when suddenly His wrath is kindled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.18/)
- [So shall the king desire thy beauty; for he is thy lord; and do homage unto him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.752/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «homage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.