collage

See also: Collage

English

WOTD – 10 August 2010
A collage

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kɒˈlɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑːʒ/, /ˈkɒl.ɑːʒ/
  • (US) enPR: kə-läzh', kō-läzh'; IPA(key): /kəˈlɑʒ/, /koʊˈlɑʒ/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːʒ, (US) -ɑʒ

Noun

collage (countable and uncountable, plural collages)

  1. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
  2. 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.
    Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories.
  3. (uncountable) The technique of producing a work of art of this kind.

Derived terms

terms derived from collage (noun)

Translations

See also

Verb

collage (third-person singular simple present collages, present participle collaging, simple past and past participle collaged)

  1. (transitive) To make into a collage.
    collage the picture together.

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Anagrams

Basque

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /kolaʒ/ [ko.laʒ]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /kolaʃ/ [ko.laʃ]
  • (Navarro-Lapurdian) Rhymes: -olaʒ
  • (Southern) Rhymes: -olaʃ

Noun

collage inan

  1. collage

Declension

Further reading

  • "collage" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkɔˈlaː.ʒə/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: col‧la‧ge
  • Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

collage m (plural collages)

  1. collage (image created by placing pictures on a surface)
  2. collage (composite created by the assemblage of various works)

Derived terms

  • herfstcollage

Descendants

  • Indonesian: kolase

French

Etymology

From coller + -age.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.laʒ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

collage m (plural collages)

  1. collage
  2. (photography) montage

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

collage

  1. Alternative form of college

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈlaʃ/ [koˈlaʃ]
    • Rhymes: -aʃ
  • IPA(key): /koˈlaʒ/ [koˈlaʒ]
    • Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

collage m (plural collages)

  1. collage

Usage notes

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

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