Definitions for album
ˈæl bəmal·bum

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. album, record album(noun)

   one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc

2. album(noun)

   a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. album(Noun)

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

   Etymology: From album, from albus.

2. album(Noun)

   A jacket for a phonograph record; an album cover.

   Etymology: From album, from albus.

3. album(Noun)

   A phonograph record.

   Etymology: From album, from albus.

4. album(Noun)

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

   Etymology: From album, from albus.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Album(noun)

   a white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc

   Etymology: [L., neut. of albus white: cf. F. album. Cf. Alb.]

2. Album(noun)

   a register for visitors' names; a visitors' book

   Etymology: [L., neut. of albus white: cf. F. album. Cf. Alb.]

3. Album(noun)

   a blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc

   Etymology: [L., neut. of albus white: cf. F. album. Cf. Alb.]

Freebase(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Album

   An album is a book used for the collection and preservation of miscellaneous items such as photographs, postage stamps, newspaper clippings, visitors' comments, etc. The word later became widely used to describe a collection of audio recordings of pieces of music on a single gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. In musical usage the word was used for collections of short pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums. When long-playing records were introduced, a collection of pieces on a single record was called an album; the word was extended to other recording media such as compact disc, MiniDisc, Compact audio cassette, and digital or MP3 albums, as they were introduced. The word derives from a Classical Latin word for a blank tablet, later a list. Audio albums in physical form are often provided with decorative covers and liner notes and inserts about the music and recording, giving background information and analysis of the recording, lyrics and librettos, images of the performers, and other images and text. When supplied with compact discs they are known as CD booklets.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Album

   al′bum, n. among the Romans, a white tablet or register on which the prætor's edicts and such public notices were recorded: a blank book for the insertion of portraits, autographs, poetical extracts, memorial verses, postage-stamps, or the like.—adj. Al′bumē′an, and n. Al′bumess, whimsical coinages of Charles Lamb. [L. albus, white.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'album' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4226

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'album' in Nouns Frequency: #1512

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of album in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of album in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of album in a Sentence

1. Pauline E. Petsel:

   Memories are the 'snapshots of the mind' we carry with us wherever we go so we don't have to carry the weight of an album around. 'Pictures' are for sharing our 'happy times and wonderful experiences' with others, of God's world so they can enjoy our memories too.

2. Elissa Blount Moorhead.For Moorhead:

   I just remember looking at the album covers and reading them, and recognizing they were black women, and thinking they looked like people I knew, even though they were psychedelic.

3. Jenny Gisby:

   It is terrifying when I wake up with no memory and it takes half an hour before I begin to remember again, my photo album definitely helps speed it all up.

4. Noel Hogan:

   When we realized how strong the songs were, that was the deciding factor really... There was no point... trying to ruin the legacy of the band, it was obvious that Dolores wanted this album done because when you hear the album, you hear the songs and how strong they are, and she was very, very excited to get in and record this.

5. Kanye West:

   I had never been diagnosed [with a mental condition] until I was 39, but like I said on the album, it’s not a disability, it’s a superpower.

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