ALBUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does album mean? 

• ALBUM (noun)
  The noun ALBUM has 2 senses:

1. 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

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

  Familiarity information: ALBUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALBUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

album; record album

Hypernyms ("album" is a kind of...):

medium (a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "album"):

concept album (an album whose recordings are unified by some theme (instrumental or lyrical or narrative or compositional))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("album" is a kind of...):

book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "album"):

autograph album (an album for autographs)

phonograph album; record album (an album for holding phonograph records)

photograph album (an album for photographs)

scrapbook (an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted)

stamp album (an album for stamps)

 Context examples 

An extract of the whole plant Viscum album (mistletoe) with potential biological response modifier (BRM) activity.

(Mistletoe Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

Travel is certainly indicated, but if you prefer to stay home, you can begin a media project, such as a book or a screenplay, or compose songs for a new album.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I give 'em away to the young ladies. They put 'em in albums, I believe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She is standing alone at the table, bending gracefully over an album.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then Georgiana produced her album.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)