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English

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A collage

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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collage (countable and uncountable, plural collages)

  1. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
  2. 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.
  3. (uncountable) The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind. Near-synonyms: bricolage, montage
  4. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    • 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.

Derived terms

[edit] terms derived from collage (noun)
  • collage film
  • collagelike
  • collage novel
  • collagey
  • collagic
  • collagist
  • collagistic
  • decollage
  • photocollage
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  • décollage

Translations

[edit] picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface
  • Armenian: կոլաժ (hy) (kolaž)
  • Bulgarian: кола́ж m (koláž)
  • Catalan: collage m
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 拼貼 / 拼贴 (zh) (pīntiē)
  • Czech: koláž (cs) f
  • Dutch: collage (nl) f
  • Esperanto: kolaĝo
  • Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
  • French: collage (fr) m
  • German: Collage (de) f
  • Greek: κολάζ (el) n (koláz)
  • Hungarian: kollázs (hu)
  • Indonesian: kolase (id)
  • Irish: colláis f
  • Italian: collage (it) m
  • Japanese: コラージュ (ja) (korāju)
  • Korean: 콜라주 (kollaju)
  • Malay: kolaj
  • Māori: toipiripiri
  • Marathi: चिकटचित्र (cikaṭcitra)
  • Norwegian: kollasj m, collage (no) m
  • Persian: کلاژ (fa) (kolâž)
  • Polish: kolaż (pl) m
  • Portuguese: colagem (pt) f
  • Punjabi: ਕੋਲਾਜ (kolāj)
  • Romanian: colaj (ro) n
  • Russian: колла́ж (ru) m (kolláž)
  • Slovak: koláž f
  • Slovene: kolaž m
  • Spanish: collage m
  • Swedish: kollage (sv) n
  • Turkish: kolaj (tr)
composite object or collection
  • Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
  • Hungarian: kollázs (hu)
  • Māori: toipiripiri
  • Portuguese: composição (pt) f
  • Russian: колла́ж (ru) m (kolláž)
  • Spanish: collage m
art: technique of producing such a work of art
  • Catalan: collage m
  • Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
  • Hungarian: kollázs (hu)
  • Romanian: colaj (ro) n
  • Russian: колла́ж (ru) m (kolláž)
  • Spanish: collage m

See also

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

Verb

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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.

Derived terms

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  • collager

See also

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

Anagrams

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  • alcogel

Basque

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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collage inan

  1. collage

Declension

[edit] Declension of collage (inan V-stem12)
indefinite singular plural proximal plural
absolutive collage collagea collageak collageok
ergative collagek collageak collageek collageok
dative collageri collageari collageei collageoi
genitive collageren collagearen collageen collageon
comitative collagerekin collagearekin collageekin collageokin
causative collagerengatik collagearengatik collageengatik collageongatik
benefactive collagerentzat collagearentzat collageentzat collageontzat
instrumental collagez collageaz collageez collageotaz
innesive collagetan collagean collageetan collageotan
locative collagetako collageko collageetako collageotako
allative collagetara collagera collageetara collageotara
terminative collagetaraino collageraino collageetaraino collageotaraino
directive collagetarantz collagerantz collageetarantz collageotarantz
destinative collagetarako collagerako collageetarako collageotarako
ablative collagetatik collagetik collageetatik collageotatik
partitive collagerik — — —
prolative collagetzat — — —

1. Optionally, case suffixes can be separated from the root with a hyphen.2. Words ending in a written vowel but pronounced with a final consonant follow consonant declension in speech but vowel declension in writing.

Further reading

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

Dutch

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌkɔˈlaː.ʒə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: col‧la‧ge
  • Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

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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)

Derived terms

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  • herfstcollage
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  • col

Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: kolase

French

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Etymology

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From coller +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kɔ.laʒ/
  • Audio (France (Toulouse)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
  • Audio (France):(file)
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Somain)):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

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collage m (plural collages)

  1. collage
  2. (photography) montage
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  • décollage

Descendants

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  • → Catalan: collage
  • → Chinese: 珂拉琪
  • → Dutch: collage
  • → English: collage
  • → German: Collage
  • → Irish: colláis
  • → Italian: collage
  • → Japanese: コラージュ
  • → Korean: 콜라주 (kollaju)
  • → Portuguese: colagem (semantic loan)
  • → Russian: колла́ж (kolláž) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Turkish: kolaj

Further reading

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

Middle English

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Noun

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collage

  1. alternative form of college

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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collage m (plural collages)

  1. collage

Usage notes

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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.

Further reading

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  • “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

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