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album

Pronunciation: /ˈalbəm/

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Definition of album

noun

  • 1a blank book for the insertion of photographs, stamps, or pictures:the wedding pictures had pride of place in the family album
  • 2a collection of recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, or cassette: his debut album was very much influenced by the jazz sound

Origin:

early 17th century: from Latin, neuter of albus 'white' used as a noun meaning 'a blank tablet'. Taken into English from the German use of the Latin phrase album amicorum 'album of friends' (a blank book in which autographs, drawings, poems, etc. were collected), it was originally used consciously as a Latin word

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