Definitions for album
ˈæl bəmal·bum

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

1. album, record albumnoun

   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. albumnoun

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

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1. albumnoun

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

2. albumnoun

   A jacket for a phonograph record; an album cover.

3. albumnoun

   A phonograph record.

4. albumnoun

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

5. Etymology: From album, from albus.

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

1. Albumnoun

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

2. Albumnoun

   a register for visitors' names; a visitors' book

3. Albumnoun

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

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

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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.]

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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

How to pronounce album?

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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. Terry Lewis:

   It's crazy to think we're about to release our debut album after all these years, this is going to be a very special moment and we are grateful to have this team behind us.

2. James Gavin:

   Back in the Wham! days, he experimented with cocaine, but he didn’t really like it, in the early ‘90s, George got into ecstasy. But then Anselmo Feleppa, who was no doubt the love of his life and his soulmate, died in 1993 of AIDS. He was racked with pain. He turned to pot and became a full-time stoner. His album ‘Older' was made completely under the influence of pot. Then around 2003, 2004, he got into a party drug called GHB. In my opinion, more than anything, that’s the drug that did him in. But he didn’t stop there. He got into crack cocaine and was arrested for possession of that.

3. Fetty Wap:

   Even if the album don't go anywhere, that doesn't mean nothing to me, i did what most people said I wouldn't do. And I overcame, I guess you could say, a lot of rookie boundaries. I just shot past what a lot of people expected. Selling the album is what I'm supposed to do in the music industry, not what I wanted to do.

4. Dee Snider:

   As a parent Dee Snider and as a rock fan, I know when I see an album cover with a severed goat’s head in the middle of a pentagram between a woman’s legs that it’s not the kind of album I want my son to be listening to.

5. Lady Gaga:

   That's why that album was successful, because I was able to write some music that wasn't made while I had the fear of God in me, pulling my skirt down in a studio because men were shoving their hands up my dress.

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