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], /ɒˈmɑːʒ/
• 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 Woman‎^[1]:

     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.
   • 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]
• Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɑːʒ/ has been introduced from French for sense 2; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling.

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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