collage
See also: Collage
English
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French collage. Doublet of collagen, colloid, and protocol.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /kɒˈlɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑːʒ/, /ˈkɒl.ɑːʒ/
- (US) enPR: kə-läzh', kō-läzh'; IPA(key): /kəˈlɑʒ/, /koʊˈlɑʒ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːʒ, (US) -ɑʒ
Noun
[edit]collage (countable and uncountable, plural collages)
- A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
- A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.
- Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage
- Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories.
- (uncountable) The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind.
- This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.- 2000, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7338:
- The Hispanic American community is a collage of distinct groups, including people with roots in Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Spain.
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from collage (noun)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface
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composite object or collection
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art: technique of producing such a work of art
See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]collage (third-person singular simple present collages, present participle collaging, simple past and past participle collaged)
- (transitive) To make into a collage.
- collage the picture together.
Derived terms
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collage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Category:collage on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
[edit]Basque
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French collage.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /kolaʒ/ [ko.laʒ]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /kolaʃ/ [ko.laʃ]
- Rhymes: -olaʒ, -aʒ
- Rhymes: -olaʃ, -aʃ
Noun
[edit]collage inan
Declension
[edit]1. Optionally, case suffixes can be separated from the root with a hyphen.
2. Words ending in a written vowel but pronounced with a final consonant follow consonant declension in speech but vowel declension in writing.
Further reading
[edit]- “collage”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French collage.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]collage m (plural collages, no diminutive)
- collage (image created by placing pictures on a surface)
- collage (composite created by the assemblage of various works)
Derived terms
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[edit]- → Indonesian: kolase
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɔ.laʒ/
Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Rhymes: -aʒ
Noun
[edit]collage m (plural collages)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
Further reading
[edit]- “collage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]collage
- alternative form of college
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French collage.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]collage m (plural collages)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “collage”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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