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montage.

A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/mɒnˈtɑːʒ/Received-Pronunciation/ˈmɒn.tɑːʒ/Received-Pronunciation/mɑnˈtɑʒ/General-American/ˈmɑn.tɑʒ/General-American
  1. A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.

    countable
  2. The art or process of doing this.

    uncountable
  3. A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.

    countable
Where this word comes from

, 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”).

verb/mɒnˈtɑːʒ/Received-Pronunciation/ˈmɒn.tɑːʒ/Received-Pronunciation/mɑnˈtɑʒ/General-American/ˈmɑn.tɑʒ/General-American
  1. To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

, 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”).

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