collage

See also Collage

English

WOTD – 10 August 2010    

A collage

Etymology

Borrowing from French collage

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɒlˈɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑːʒ/, /ˈkɒl.ɑːʒ/
• (US) enPR: kə-läzh', kō-läzh', IPA: /kəˈlɑʒ/, /koʊˈlɑʒ/

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Noun

collage (plural collages)

1. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
2. A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc..
   • "Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories."
3. (uncountable) The technique of producing such a work of art that is a collage.

Derived terms

terms derived from collage (noun)

collage film collage novel collagic

collagist collagistic

See also

• montage

Translations

picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface

• Armenian: կոլաժ (hy) (kolaž)
• Bulgarian: колаж (bg) (koláž) m
• Catalan: collage (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拼貼 (cmn), 拼贴 (cmn) (pīntīe)

• Czech: koláž (cs) f
• Dutch: collage (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolaĝo (eo)
• Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
• French: collage (fr) m
• German: Collage (de) f
• Greek: κολάζ (el) (koláz) n

• Hungarian: kollázs (hu)
• Japanese: コラージュ (ja) (korāju)
• Korean: 콜라주 (ko) (kollaju)
• Norwegian: kollasj (no) m, collage (no) m
• Polish: kolaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: colagem (pt) f
• Romanian: colaj (ro) m
• Russian: коллаж (ru) (kolláž) m
• Slovene: kolaž (sl) m
• Spanish: collage (es) m
• Swedish: kollage (sv) n
• Turkish: kolaj (tr)

composite object or collection

• Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
• Hungarian: kollázs (hu)

• Russian: коллаж (ru) (kolláž) m

art: technique of producing such a work of art

• Catalan: collage (ca) m
• Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
• Hungarian: kollázs (hu)

• Romanian: colaj (ro) n
• Russian: коллаж (ru) (kolláž) m

Verb

collage (third-person singular simple present collages, present participle collaging, simple past and past participle collaged)

1. (transitive) To make into a collage.

See also

• collage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Collage on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons

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French

Etymology

From coller +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔlaʒ/

Noun

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage
2. (photography) montage