album

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

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