montage

noun mon·tage \ män-ˈtäzh , mōⁿ(n)- \

|Updated on: 10 Aug 2018

Examples: montage in a Sentence

Definition of montage

1 : the production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of ideas

2 a : a literary, musical, or artistic composite (see ²composite 1) of juxtaposed more or less heterogeneous elements

b : a composite picture made by combining several separate pictures

3 : a heterogeneous mixture : jumble

a montage of emotions

a montage of sounds

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Examples of montage in a Sentence

a photographer who often uses montage in her pictures
my memories of the childhood trip are a montage of the sights, smells, and sounds of India

Recent Examples of montage from the Web

Foster says to the camera, as a montage shows the women inspecting handbags, firing weapons, and laughing playfully.

— ben wofford, Glamour, "The NRA's Most Wanted Customer: Women," 28 June 2018
Bullock goes about getting the band back together, in the first of many montages.

— jaya saxena, GQ, "And that’s exactly what it should be.," 7 June 2018
Opening with an impressive montage of black-and-white archive footage showing the arrival of North African immigrants of yesteryear, the film immediately shifts to their contemporary descendants.

— deborah young, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Sheherazade': Film Review | Cannes 2018," 14 May 2018
Inside the Park Theater at the Monte Carlo in Las Vegas, Kardashian West shared a quick glimpse of a montage featuring Cher.

— alexia fernandez, PEOPLE.com, "Kim Kardashian Leaves Kanye West to Fly to Las Vegas for High School Reunion and Cher Concert," 5 May 2018
And the plot, with its elaborate weave of suspicion and misdirection, has been distilled into a series of associative montages.

— justin chang, chicagotribune.com, "'The Green Fog' review: A scrambled history of San Francisco and an homage to 'Vertigo'," 26 Apr. 2018
At the end, a similar montage shows something different — what the Mercury 13 pilots never got to experience: women floating in zero gravity.

— alessandra potenza, The Verge, "Netflix doc Mercury 13 tells the story of women who should have gone to space but couldn’t," 20 Apr. 2018
In the spirit of letting go, Randall also encourages the crowd to let go of control, as the episode wanders off to a series of bleak montages foreseeing a sad future for some of them.

— candice frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, "This Is Us Just Teased the Future with the Most Devastating Final Scene," 14 Mar. 2018
There are a couple of montages that will blow your socks off.

— christopher arnott, courant.com, "'Legend Of Georgia McBride' At TheaterWorks: An Up-Close Celebration Of Drag," 8 Mar. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of montage

French, from monter to mount

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First Known Use: 1929

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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montage

verb

Definition of montage

montaged; montaging

transitive verb

: to combine into or depict in a montage

Recent Examples of montage from the Web

The residences will be similar to Montage Residences.

— Orange County Register, "Montage International debuts Pendry hotel brand with more on the way," 20 Mar. 2017

First Known Use of montage

1944

in the meaning defined above

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Other Fine Arts Terms

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MONTAGE Defined for English Language Learners

montage

noun

Definition of montage for English Language Learners

: a work of art that is made up of several different kinds of things (such as strips of newspaper, pictures, or pieces of wood)
: a mixture of different things