Definitions for montages

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montages mon·tage

Spelling: [mon-tahzh; French mawn-tazh

IPA: /mɒnˈtɑʒ; French mɔ̃ˈtaʒ/

Montages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 492 anagrams from letters in montages (aegmnost).

Definitions for montages

noun

1. the technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or meaning to the composition. Compare collage (def 1).
2. photomontage.
3. Movies, Television. juxtaposition or partial superimposition of several shots to form a single image. a technique of film editing in which this is used to present an idea or set of interconnected ideas.
4. any combination of disparate elements that forms or is felt to form a unified whole, single image, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to make or incorporate into a montage.

Origin of montages

1920-25; French, equivalent to mont(er) to mount¹ + -age -age

Examples for montages

A mixtape dubbed “montage of Heck” has surfaced on the site Live Nirvana!

There were newsreel shots of V-1 and V-2 being blasted from their takeoff ramps and a montage of later experimental models.

The sex scene between April and Mr. B. is a montage of discreet close-ups.

Consciousness came back in little dribbles like a montage—half reality and half nightmare of the insomniac.

Jim Carrey cracked an LSD joke while teeing up a montage of animated films.

BuzzFeed provided the “definitive ranking” of its favorite characters in the montage.

At all events he owed his success in life primarily to montage, to whom he appears to have acted as a sort of agent.

The montage editor, Nicholas Goodman, and I wanted to include a brief moment from The Purple Rose of Cairo, in which Mia appeared.

montage after stunning montage depicting everything from the story of Adam and Eve to the creation of the universe.

It all ends with a montage set to a soft rock version of “Let My Love Open the Door.”