1. album(n = noun.communication) record album - 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;
is a kind of medium
has particulars: concept album
2. album(n = noun.artifact) - a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc;
is a kind of book, volume
has particulars: autograph album, phonograph album, record album, photograph album, scrapbook, stamp album
1. A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc. [1913 Webster]
2. A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book. [1913 Webster]
3. A blank book, in which to insert autographs, sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc. [1913 Webster]
album, n.
1 a blank book for the insertion of photographs, stamps, etc.
2 a a long-playing gramophone record. b a set of these.
Etymology:
L, = a blank tablet, neut. of albus white
N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
N compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression, compendious, synoptic, analectic, abrege, abridged, variorum, in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words, it lies in a nutshell.
album gr'91cum, autograph album, benefit album, chenopodium album, concept album, cypripedium album, haemulon album, lamium album, phonograph album, photograph album, record album, santalum album, stamp album, tribute album, viscum album