montage

verb

montaged; montaging
Synonyms of montagenext

transitive verb

: to combine into or depict in a montage

Examples of montage in a Sentence

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The piece wraps four walls at Lisson gallery, where Akomfrah montages archival and new footage. Hilton Als, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026 The show could have montaged its way to a shorter version of the sequence where Carol lugs heavy stone tiles from a home-building depot to her house and places them one by one over the grave site. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025 Oppenheimer, about the father of the atomic bomb, was more quietly radical: The director, Christopher Nolan, told a complex story by montaging lots of vignette-like, TikTok-length scenes. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025 Among them were a video montaging victims of state violence that placed Anne Frank alongside the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 31 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for montage

Word History

Etymology

derivative of montage entry 1

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of montage was in 1944

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“Montage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/montage. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

Kids Definition

montage

noun
mon·​tage
män-ˈtäzh
mōn-
1
: an artistic composition made up of several different kinds of items (as strips of newspaper, pictures, bits of wood) arranged together
2
: a rapid succession of distinct scenes or images in a motion picture to illustrate associated ideas

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