Dictionary

album en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛlbəm/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈɛɫb̚m̩] (New-Zealand)
• /ˈælbəm/ (Canada, General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• [ˈæɫb̚m̩] (Canada, General-American)
• [ˈaɫb̚m̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈæɫb̚m̩] (Australia)
• [ˈæɫb̚m̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈælbəm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈælbəm/ (Australia)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
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. 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
   • In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it.
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). 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364
4. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
5. A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
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.
   • When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with. 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Forms

Deriveds

album graecum · album-oriented soul · album track · studio album · photo album · album-oriented rock · solo album · stamp album · multialbum · albumless · split album · concept album · nonalbum · minialbum · adult album alternative · nihil album · album-oriented radio · stratum album intermediale · live album

Descendants

앨범 · アルバム · ألبوم · albam · album · အယ်လဘမ် · albwm · album · อัลบั้ม · album

Synonyms

disk (phonograph record) · LP (phonograph record) · disc (phonograph record) · scrapbook · long-playing (phonograph record)

Translations (185)

pt álbum (white tablet used in Ancient Rome) · yi אַלבאָם (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ko 사진첩 (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · nb album (phonograph record (LP)) · is albúm (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · yue 唱片 (phonograph record (LP)) · uk альбо́м (phonograph record (LP)) · fi albumi (group of audio recordings on any media) · ga albam (phonograph record (LP)) · id album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · pl album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · es álbum (group of audio recordings on any media) · ja 写真帖 (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ko 앨범 (phonograph record (LP)) · ar أَلْبُوم (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · es álbum (phonograph record (LP)) · ga albam (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · uz albom (group of audio recordings on any media) · pt álbum (group of audio recordings on any media) · af album (phonograph record (LP)) · km អាល់ប៊ុម (group of audio recordings on any media) · fa آلْبوم (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · yue 唱片 (group of audio recordings on any media) · sh а̀лбӯм (group of audio recordings on any media) · yue 專輯 /专辑 (group of audio recordings on any media) · sl album (group of audio recordings on any media) · ky альбом (phonograph record (LP)) · zh 專 /专 (group of audio recordings on any media) · bg албу́м (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · my အယ်လဘမ် (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · uz albom (phonograph record (LP)) · my အယ်လဘမ် (phonograph record (LP)) · lt albumas (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · fa آلْبوم (phonograph record (LP)) · hu lemez (phonograph record (LP)) · th อัลบั้ม (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · fi albumi (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ms album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · he אָלְבּוּם (phonograph record (LP)) · zh 册子 (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ar أَلْبُوم (phonograph record (LP)) · nn album (group of audio recordings on any media) · km អាល់ប៊ុម (phonograph record (LP)) · et album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · be альбо́м (group of audio recordings on any media) · zh 磚 /砖 (group of audio recordings on any media) · sk album (group of audio recordings on any media) · ug ئالبۇم (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · id album (group of audio recordings on any media) · ja アルバム (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · yi אַלבום (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · cs album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · mi pukaemi (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · zh 影集 (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · tl album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · kmr albûm (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · pl album (group of audio recordings on any media) · he אָלְבּוּם (group of audio recordings on any media) · ru альбо́м (group of audio recordings on any media) · ar أَلْبُوم (group of audio recordings on any media) · ko 앨범 (group of audio recordings on any media) · he אָלְבּוּם (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · uz albom (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · sh а̀лбӯм (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · uk альбо́м (group of audio recordings on any media) · hu sorlemez (group of audio recordings on any media) · mn альбом (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · fr album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · th อัลบั้ม (group of audio recordings on any media) · da album (group of audio recordings on any media) · kk альбом (group of audio recordings on any media) · el άλμπουμ (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · hi एल्बम (phonograph record (LP)) · sv album (phonograph record (LP)) · zh 唱片 (group of audio recordings on any media) · nl album (group of audio recordings on any media) · pl album (phonograph record (LP)) · ky альбом (group of audio recordings on any media) · my အယ်လဘမ် (group of audio recordings on any media) · nn album (phonograph record (LP)) · hi अलबम (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · vi an bum (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · el άλμπουμ (phonograph record (LP)) · az albom (group of audio recordings on any media) · mn цомог (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ko 앨범 (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · be альбо́м (phonograph record (LP)) · grc λεύκωμᾰ (white tablet used in Ancient Rome) · fr album (phonograph record (LP)) · de Album (phonograph record (LP)) · be альбо́м (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · fi valokuva-albumi (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · nb album (group of audio recordings on any media) · lo ສະມຸດ (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ru альбо́м (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · fa آلْبوم (group of audio recordings on any media) · nl album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ro album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · sh а̀лбӯм (phonograph record (LP)) · mk албум (phonograph record (LP)) · kk альбом (phonograph record (LP)) · pt álbum (phonograph record (LP)) · sh àlbūm (group of audio recordings on any media) · uk альбо́м (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · eo albumo (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · cs album (group of audio recordings on any media) · zh 畫冊 /画册 (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · sq album (phonograph record (LP)) · my တေးစီးရီး (group of audio recordings on any media) · km អាល់ប៊ុម (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · da album (phonograph record (LP)) · tr albüm (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · sk album (phonograph record (LP)) · tg албом (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · hi अल्बम (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · nl album (phonograph record (LP)) · cy albwm (group of audio recordings on any media) · th อัลบั้ม (phonograph record (LP)) · id album (phonograph record (LP)) · fo flaga (phonograph record (LP)) · pt álbum (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · hu album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · es álbum (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · da album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · zh 唱片 (phonograph record (LP)) · hy ալբոմ (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · mn ᠠᠯᠪᠦ᠋ᠮ (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · sv album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · sh àlbūm (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · de Album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · lv albums (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · vi an bom (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · az albom (phonograph record (LP)) · cy albwm (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · it album (phonograph record (LP)) · sq album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · sh àlbūm (phonograph record (LP)) · ky альбом (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ja アルバム (phonograph record (LP)) · sl album (phonograph record (LP)) · de Album (group of audio recordings on any media) · sv album (group of audio recordings on any media) · tk albom (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · af album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · zh 專輯 /专辑 (group of audio recordings on any media) · af album (group of audio recordings on any media) · is plata (phonograph record (LP)) · my တေးစီးရီး (phonograph record (LP)) · sk album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · la album (white tablet used in Ancient Rome) · ps البم (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · bn অ্যালবাম (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ka ალბომი (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · cy albwm (phonograph record (LP)) · fr album (group of audio recordings on any media) · bg албу́м (phonograph record (LP)) · mn ᠴᠣᠮᠤᠭ (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · az albom (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · lo ປຶ້ມ (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ka ალბომი (group of audio recordings on any media) · bg албу́м (group of audio recordings on any media) · kk альбом (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · hy ալբոմ (group of audio recordings on any media) · cs album (phonograph record (LP)) · ga albam (group of audio recordings on any media) · sl album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · sq album (group of audio recordings on any media) · ar أَلْبُوم (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ja アルバム (group of audio recordings on any media) · nb album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · tg албом (phonograph record (LP)) · zh 集郵冊 /集邮册 (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · eo albumo (phonograph record (LP)) · ru альбо́м (phonograph record (LP)) · ka ალბომი (phonograph record (LP)) · it album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · nn album (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · hy ալբոմ (phonograph record (LP)) · ur اَلْبَم (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · ro album (phonograph record (LP)) · tg албом (group of audio recordings on any media) · mk албум (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs) · fi albumi (phonograph record (LP)) · hu album (group of audio recordings on any media) · lo ອັລບັມ (book for photographs, stamps, or autographs)