record

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
noun sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
noun the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had

From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record.

“A fairly complete record, Watson! — His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
[84] Stratford Miscellaneous Records, No. — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
From this date the record is silent. — Kim, Rudyard Kipling

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