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MONTAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does montage mean?
• MONTAGE (noun)
The noun MONTAGE has 1 sense:
1. a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
Familiarity information: MONTAGE used as a noun is very 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 ("montage" 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 "montage"):
photomontage (a montage that uses photographic images)
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