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album

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈælbəm//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈæɫb̚m̩]/
  • United Kingdom/[ˈaɫb̚m̩]/
  • Canada//ˈælbəm//
  • Canada/[ˈæɫb̚m̩]/

A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

noun

  1. 1

    historicalIn Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.

  2. 2

    A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

    Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

    In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it.

  3. 3

    A collection, especially of literary items.

    This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).

  4. 4

    A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.

  5. 5

    A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.

  6. 6

    A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.

    His albums are very popular on Spotify.

    He has released 8 albums so far.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Forms

plural
albums, alba
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).