Dictionary

assemblage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈsɛmblɪd͡ʒ/
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Etymology

Borrowed from French assemblage. By surface analysis, assemble + -age.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of assembling or bringing together.
   • the assemblage of words and recordings
2. (countable, uncountable) A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
   • The tomb contained percussion, string and wind instruments in a remarkable state of preservation, including the largest assemblage of Bronze Age bells ever recovered. Discovered in 1977, near the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province in central China, the tomb, from the fifth century B.C., has long been considered "one of the most significant archeological discoveries of the 20th century," said Peter A. Young, editor in chief of the magazine. 1994 January 18, Glen Collins, “Bells of Bronze Age Show the Complexity Of Old China's Music”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Arts:
3. (countable, uncountable) A gathering of people.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
   • But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them. 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
4. (countable, uncountable) A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
5. (countable, uncountable) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.

Forms

Deriveds

interassemblage · superassemblage · reassemblage · palynoassemblage · subassemblage · faunal assemblage · assemblage theory · assemblagist · assemblage point · ichnoassemblage · of assemblage

Relateds

collage

Synonyms

legion · group · press · crowd · congregation · throng · multitude · slew · assemblage · horde · flock · mass · huddle

Translations (26)

ms asemblaj (group of artifacts) · pl montaż (process of assembling) · fr assemblage (group of artifacts) · bg струпване (process of assembling) · mk соби́рање (process of assembling) · bg сглобяване (process of assembling) · fr assemblage (collection of things) · bg сбор (collection of things) · ms asemblaj (art form) · pl asamblaż (art form) · id himpunan (collection of things) · id kawanan (collection of things) · bg асамблаж (art form) · mk се́вкупност (process of assembling) · ms himpunan (art form) · hi संभार (collection of things) · mk зби́рка (collection of things) · pl assemblage (art form) · id himpunan (group of artifacts) · mk склопу́вање (process of assembling) · ms himpunan (group of artifacts) · id gabungan (collection of things) · fr assemblage (process of assembling) · fi assemblaasi (art form) · pl zbiorowisko (collection of things) · fi kokoelma (collection of things)