ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsMmosaic
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mosaic
Meaning: a picture or pattern made from small pieces of colored material
mosaic in a sentence
How mosaic is used in real sentences:
The artist spent months arranging tiny tiles into a mosaic of the harbor at sunset.
The ancient floor of the villa featured a mosaic depicting dolphins leaping through blue waves.
“Back at the university, students arranged red, blue, and yellow foil squares into a mosaic across a model deck; cameras tracked how its colored pieces shifted.”
— from the passage The Singing Span
Synonyms for mosaic
Other words for mosaic — collage, montage and patchwork — carry the same meaning.
- collage
- montage
- patchwork
Where it comes from
From Italian mosaico, from Greek mouseios 'of the Muses'
Memory hook
MO-SAIC: more pieces said to make one picture.