Myriorama

Quick meaning: Myriorama is a noun meaning (figurative) A shifting collection of ideas, locations, descriptions, or experiences.

Meaning

(figurative) A shifting collection of ideas, locations, descriptions, or experiences.

More Meanings

1. A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate cards so that they can be combined in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.
2. A traveling roadshow in the late 19th century featuring painted canvases that move on rollers to music (panoramas), reenactments of historical events with moving models (dioramas), variety acts, and lectures, all accompanied by sound effects, light effects, and smoke.

Example Sentences

In 1825, Brès would produce the ultimate myriorama—a 36-card componium Pittoresque.

Popular in the 1820s, often as a children's toy, the myriorama (Greek: many views) originated in Germany.

Molly's myriorama fuses these elements— spectacle and drama, commentary and song— in her complex, revolving mental kaleidescope.

Panoramas, be they a myriorama or a diorama type, provided audiences with an immersive visual experience and were hugely popular.

Word Forms

• myrioramas

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polyorama, ancona, polymythy, polyptych, orthophotomosaic, multiplism.

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