hommage

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/oʊˈmɑːʒ//ɒˈmɑːʒ/

noun

A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

nounhommage (countable and uncountable, plural hommages)

plural hommages

  1. countableuncountableA homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.

    It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido.

    2002, Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Guido Cavalcanti, page 150
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    There's a clip from his Pickup on South Street in Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and extended hommages to other Fuller films in Godard's Breathless and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.)

    1991 November 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “His Master's Vice”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2016

    The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once.

    2007 April 30, Anthony Tommasini, “Doing Everything but Playing the Music”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Frenchhommage
  2. Englishhommage

From French hommage.

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APA

hommage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hommage

MLA

“hommage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hommage. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hommage,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hommage.

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