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COLLAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collage mean? 

COLLAGE (noun)
  The noun COLLAGE has 2 senses:

1. a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic imageplay

2. any collection of diverse thingsplay

  Familiarity information: COLLAGE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COLLAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

collage; montage

Context example:

he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map

Hypernyms ("collage" is a kind of...):

paste-up (a composition of flat objects pasted on a board or other backing)

icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collage"):

photomontage (a montage that uses photographic images)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Any collection of diverse things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

a collage of memories

Hypernyms ("collage" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)


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