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# montage

noun (a montage, montages); verb (montage, montages, montaged, montaging — rare)

«montage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. In films and TV, a quick series of short clips put together to show time passing or many things happening. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#m1)
2. A picture made by putting many photos or pieces together. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#m2)
3. The skill of choosing and joining pieces of film or pictures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#m3)

### In the lessons

Used in media studies, art (making a photo montage for a project) and everyday talk about films ("the training montage"). In a story, "a montage" tells the reader that lots of time passed quickly. Phrases: "training montage", "photo montage", "a montage of".

### Examples

- The film showed a montage of the team training hard all winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x1)
- For our end-of-year assembly we made a montage of class photos. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x2)
- The artist made a montage from old magazine pictures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x3)
- A montage of holiday clips played at the party. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x4)
- Every sports film seems to have a training montage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x5)
- The news ended with a montage of the best moments of the Games. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x6)
- We learned how editors cut film to build a montage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/#x7)

### Note

Pronounced "MON-tahzh" (from French). Countable: "a montage", "two montages". Similar to "collage" (pictures glued onto paper); a montage is more often photos or film clips.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «montage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/montage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«montage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/montage.html) on Mova free.