montage

CEFRB2

/mɒnˈtɑːʒ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A mixture of pictures, scenes, or pieces arranged together.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • Montage is a language unique to cinematography.

  • We're making a montage of Tom's college years.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The art or process of doing this.

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

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

More examples

In context

  • Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage

  • THE MYTH: Training montages are inspiring, harmless fun. At some point in any sports movie, the grossly unqualified underdog will start training to the sound of some inspirational rock song.

  • The two background photographs shown in Fig. 2 were selected from the office files of Blakeslee-Lane Studios and then montaged together by copying onto a negative.

Synonyms

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The movie began with a blank of photos from the town's history over the years.

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Origin

noun

, 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”).