album

Pronunciation: /ˈælbəm/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

Etymology

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

In classic literature

Synonyms

record album

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
medium
Narrower (hyponyms)
concept album

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