English Explanatory Dictionary

montage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
  2. The art or process of doing this.
  3. A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.
verb
  1. To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

Pronunciation

/mɒnˈtɑːʒ/ /ˈmɒn.tɑːʒ/ /mɑnˈtɑʒ/ /ˈmɑn.tɑʒ/ en-us-montage.ogg en-au-montage.ogg

Word forms

montage montages montaging montaged

Etymology

, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]] Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).

Synonyms

collage bricolage editing

Related words

assemblage collage

Derived words

automontage dead wife montage montaged montaging montagist photomontage supermontage
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