1. pictures or decorative designs made by arranging small colored pieces of stone, tile, glass, or other materials

Examples

• The ancient Roman villa featured beautiful mosaics on the bathroom floors.
• She spent months creating intricate mosaics for the church renovation.
• The artist used broken pottery to make colorful mosaics.
• Byzantine mosaics often depicted religious scenes with gold backgrounds.
• The subway station walls were decorated with modern mosaics.
• Students learned to make simple mosaics using paper squares.