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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 image
2. any collection of diverse things
Familiarity information: COLLAGE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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