collage

Unadapted borrowing from French collage. Doublet of collagen, colloid, and protocol.

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

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːʒ, (US) -ɑʒ

collage (countable and uncountable, plural collages)

2. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
4. 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.

   Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage

   Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories.

6. (uncountable) The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind.

   Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage

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   • 2000, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7338:

     The Hispanic American community is a collage of distinct groups, including people with roots in Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Spain.

• montage
• papier-mâché
• pastiche
• decoupage
• bricolage

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

1. (transitive) To make into a collage.

   collage the picture together.

• collage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:collage on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• alcogel

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /kolaʒ/ [ko.laʒ]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /kolaʃ/ [ko.laʃ]
• Rhymes: -olaʒ, -aʒ
• Rhymes: -olaʃ, -aʃ

collage inan

1. collage

• “collage”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔˈlaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: col‧la‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

collage m (plural collages, no diminutive)

1. collage (image created by placing pictures on a surface)
2. collage (composite created by the assemblage of various works)

• herfstcollage

• col

• → Indonesian: kolase

From coller +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.laʒ/

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• Rhymes: -aʒ

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage
2. (photography) montage

• “collage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

collage

1. alternative form of college

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

• IPA^(key): /koˈlaʃ/ [koˈlaʃ]
  • Rhymes: -aʃ
• IPA^(key): /koˈlaʒ/ [koˈlaʒ]
  • Rhymes: -aʒ

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “collage”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025