album

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A collection of songs released together by a musician.

   The band's new album sold a million copies in a week.

2. 2
   noun

   A book for keeping photographs, stamps, or other collected items.

   She showed us her old family photo album.

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Simplified etymology

Album entered English in the early 17th century from Latin albus, meaning “white.” This Latin word was also used as a noun for a white or blank marble tablet on which public notices were written. Album later described blank books used to compile collections such as stamps or photographs and, from the 1940s, a collection of recorded music.

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

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