a picture or pattern made by placing together small pieces of glass, stone, etc. of different colours 镶嵌图案；马赛克 a Roman mosaic 罗马镶嵌画 a design in mosaic 马赛克图案 mosaic tiles 马赛克瓷砖 - (figurative)
A mosaic of fields, rivers and woods lay below us. 我们下方是由田野、河流和林木交织成的图画。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMosaic is used before these nouns:- tile
Word Originlate Middle English: from French mosaïque, based on Latin musi(v)um decoration with small square stones, perhaps ultimately from Greek mousa ‘a muse’.