homageとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒmɪdʒ/
• (General American) enPR: (h)ŏmʹĭj, ō-mäjʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ɑmɪdʒ/, /oʊˈmɑʒ/^[1][1]
• 韻: -ɒmɪdʒ, -ɑːʒ
• ハイフネーション: hom‧age

名詞

homage (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 homages)

1. (countable, uncountable) A demonstration of respect, such as towards an individual after their retirement or death
   • 1735, [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London; Dublin: Re-printed by George Faulkner, bookseller, […], OCLC 6363280:

     I sought no homage from the race that write.

   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women:

     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.

   • 2006, New York Times

     It’s appropriate that we pay homage to them and the sacrifices they made.

   • 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:

     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. Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɒːʒ/ has been introduced from French for this usage; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling.
   • 2002, Kevin Williamson, Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 6.01)

     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. (historical) In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona:

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

使用する際の注意点

• Often used in the construction pay homage to.
• Because of the different pronunciations, homage is sometimes preceded by the article a and sometimes by an.^[1]

同意語

• manred (英国用法, dialectal または 廃れた用法)

派生語

• homager

動詞

homage (三人称単数 現在形 homages, 現在分詞 homaging, 過去形および過去分詞形 homaged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pay reverence to by external action.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to pay homage.
   • 1641, Abraham Cowley, A Poem on the Civil War

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

Further reading

• homage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• homage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Homage (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.

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