collage

/kəˈlɑːʒ/

nouncol · lage

Think: “COLlect and GLUE” — a col-lage is made by collecting pieces and gluing them together.

Yes, it's collage. Watch the ending: it’s -age but sounds like “-azh” (/ʒ/), and it has double L: coLLage.

Definitions

  1. nounA piece of art made by gluing different materials (such as photos, paper, or fabric) onto one surface.
  2. nounA collection or mixture of different things put together to create one whole.

Examples

  • For art class, Maya made a collage from magazine pictures and colored paper.
  • The video was a collage of short clips from our trip.
  • His speech felt like a collage of quotes from famous books.

Synonyms

montagecompositionassemblagemosaicpatchwork

Antonyms

original

Translations

ES collagePT colagemFR collage

Common misspellings

colagecolladgecollageecollaugecollogecolledgecollagécollagé

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