Definition of MONTAGE

montage

Meanings

Plural: montages

Noun

  • a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
  • A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
  • The art or process of doing this.
  • 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.

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

collage, editing

Scrabble Score: 10

montage is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
montage is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
montage is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

montage is a valid Words With Friends word