What does "album" mean?
In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
Album
/ˈælbəm/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
- Grammar: album is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: account book, address book, adversaria, ana.
- Useful contrasts: more single, EP, a single.
- Usage evidence: Damon showed me his stamp album.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded. historical
- 2 a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 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 wordnet
- 5 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)."
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- 6 A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
- 7 A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
- 8 A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
"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."
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Example
"Damon showed me his stamp album."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "album"?
Common synonyms include: account book, address book, adversaria, ana, analects, annual.
How do you use "album" in a sentence?
Damon showed me his stamp album.
How do you pronounce "album"?
Pronounced /ˈælbəm/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).