Definition of Album

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.

Exact synonyms: Record Album
Generic synonyms: Medium
Specialized synonyms: Concept Album

2. Noun. A book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc.

Definition of Album

1. n. A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

Definition of Album

1. Noun. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. ¹

2. Noun. A jacket for a phonograph record; an album cover. ¹

3. Noun. A phonograph record. ¹

4. Noun. (context: Roman antiquities) ¹

5. Noun. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Album

1. a book for preserving photographs or stamps [n -S]

Medical Definition of Album

1. 1. A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc. 2. A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book. 3. A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc. Origin: L, neut. Of albus white: cf. F. Album. Cf. Alb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Album

albolabrin
albolith
albondiga
albondigas
albonoursin
albrechtschraufite
albs
albuca
albuginea
albugineotomy
albugineous
albugo
albugos
albularyo
albularyos
album (current term)
album graecum
album track
albumen
albumenization
albumenize
albumenized
albumenizes
albumenizing
albumenoid
albumens
albumin
albumin-globulin ratio
albumin A
albumin B

Literary usage of Album

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1871)
"D BY HER FATHER TO WRITE IN HER album. AN album is a Banquet: from the store ... AN album is a Garden, not for show Planted, but use ; where wholesome herbs ..."

2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"I AM Miss Catherine's book," the album speaks ; " I've lain among your tomes these ... O album! could I tell you all his ways And thoughts, since I am his, ..."

3. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1850)
"30<i album VERSES. One shaking of the Tree—'twould ask no more To set a Salad ... AN album is a Garden, not for show Planted, but use ; where wholesome ..."

4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"I THE PEN AND THE album AM Miss Catherine's book," the album speaks; ... O album ! could I tell you all his ways And thoughts, since I am his, ..."

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