Definitions for assemblage

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assemblage as·sem·blage

Spelling: [uh-sem-blij; for 3, 4 also French Assemblage is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 450 anagrams from letters in assemblage (aabeeglmss).

Definitions for assemblage

noun

1. a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.
2. the act of assembling; state of being assembled.
3. Fine Arts. a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded objects. a work of art produced by this technique. Compare collage, found object, ready-made (def 4).
4. Archaeology. the aggregate of artifacts and other remains found on a site, considered as material evidence in support of a theory concerning the culture or cultures inhabiting it.

Origin of assemblage

From French, dating back to 1695-1705; See origin at assemble, -age

Examples for assemblage

What is your plan, and what do you want to do with this assemblage of people?

“The street pole that tells a wonderful story,” Maria told the assemblage.

Self-Portrait, 1916,” which Man Ray made at the age of 26, is notably considered the “first proto-Dada assemblage.

In the midst of the assemblage one figure towers—the Arch Druid.

But leadership is more than an assemblage of intellectually correct positions.

The blackness of the assemblage was as if you poured ink into water and made it dense.

Each ship-shire elected four men to an assemblage of law-makers.

It was pleasant to see the democratic character of this assemblage of pupils.

This assemblage of evergreens was not, then, one of the bounties of Nature; they had been planted.

An embarrassed silence fell like a vapor over the assemblage.