montage

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
2. (uncountable) The art or process of doing this.
3. (countable) A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.

Verb

To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

Synonyms

mounting

editing

composing

collage

erecting

fitting up

assembly

fitting

jigsaw

🧩

joint

manufacturing

mosaic

photomontage

scabbed

set-up

splice

splicing

splice grafting

split joint

editing splice

simultaneous setting

nanofabrication

simultaneous staging

arrangement

multiple setting

assemblage

assembling

building

construction

🚧

cutting

erection

Translations

montage

Montage

montage

montaje

montaggio

fotomontaj

muntatge

ensamblaje

Fotomontage

assemblaggio

Zusammenstellung

σύνθετη εικόνα

μοντάζ

Fertigung

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɒnˈtɑːʒ/

Etymology

, 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”).