collage
UK/kɒˈlɑːʒ//kəˈlɑʒ/
collage noun: a picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
Noun
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.
- The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind.
- Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage
Verb
collage (third-person singular simple present collages, present participle collaging, simple past and past participle collaged)
- To make into a collage.
- collage the picture together.
collage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
collage in Hindi
- कोलाज, कोलाज़, कोलैजिंग
collage in Tamil
- கொலேஜிங், கொலேசிங்
collage in Marathi
- picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface
- चिकटचित्र cikaṭcitra
collage in Urdu
- کولیجنگ, کولاجنگ
More languagesFewer languages
- collage in Bengali
- কোলাজ, কলাজ, কোলাজিং
- collage in Telugu
- కోల్లెజ్, కోల్లెజింగ్
- collage in Malayalam
- ചിത്രക്കൂട്ട്, കൊളാഷ്
- collage in Kannada
- ಅಂಟು ಚಿತ್ರಣ ಕಲೆ
- collage in Punjabi
- ਕੋਲਾਜ kolāj
- collage in Gujarati
- કોલાજ, કોલાજીંગ, કોલૈજિંગ
- collage in Odia
- କୋଲାଜ, କୋଲାଜ୍, କୋଲାଜିଂ
- collage in Nepali
- कोलाज, कोलाजिङ, कोलैजिङ
- collage in Malay
- kolaj
- collage in Indonesian
- kolase
- collage in Persian
- کلاژ kolâž
Examples of collage in a sentence
- Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.
- Beeple’s collaged JPG was made, or “minted,” in February as a “nonfungible token,” or NFT.
- Against a projected background of collages by Timotheus Paulus Roeloffs, a Berlin artist, Ms.
Synonyms of collage
Forms of collage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | collages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | collages |
| present participle | collaging |
| past participle | collaged |
| past | collaged |
Origin of collage
Unadapted borrowing from French collage. Doublet of collagen, colloid, and protocol.
Words formed from collage
- collage film
- collagelike
- collage novel
- collagey
- collagic
- collagist
- collagistic
- decollage
- photocollage
- collager
Questions about collage
- What does collage mean?
- Collage means a picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
- What is collage in Hindi?
- Collage in Hindi is कोलाज, कोलाज़, कोलैजिंग. See Collage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is collage?
- Collage can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce collage?
- Collage is pronounced /kɒˈlɑːʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of collage?
- The plural of collage is collages.
Words near collage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: collage (page history and authors); collage (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collage (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collage (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collage (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collage (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collage (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collage (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collage (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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