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noun
1.
a bound or loose-leaf book consisting of blank pages, pockets, envelopes, etc., for storing or displaying photographs, stamps, or the like, or for collecting autographs.
2.
3.
the package or container for such a record or records: The album has a pocket for each record.
4.
a printed book containing an anthology of writings, reproductions of photographs or artwork, musical compositions, etc.
Origin:
1645–55; 1955–60 for def. 2; < Latin: neuter singular of albus white, i.e., a blank (tablet) painted white for writing on
1645–55; 1955–60 for def. 2; < Latin: neuter singular of albus white, i.e., a blank (tablet) painted white for writing on
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Word Origin & History
album
1650s, from L. album, neut. of albus "white" (see alb). In classical times "a blank tablet on which the prætor's edicts and other public matters were inscribed." Revived 16c. by German scholars whose custom was to keep an album amicorum of colleagues' signatures; meaning
EXPANDthen expanded into "book to collect souvenirs." According to Johnson, "a book in which foreigners have long been accustomed to insert autographs of celebrated people." Photographic albums first recorded 1859. Meaning "long-playing gramophone record" is from 1957, because the sleeves they came in resembled large albums.
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album
in ancient Rome, a whitened board on which public notices were inscribed in black. The annals compiled by the pontifex maximus (chief priest), the annual edicts of the praetor, the lists of senators and jurors, the Acta diurna (an account of daily events), and other notices were placed on albums. From this practice is derived the present English word album, meaning a book of blank pages in which autographs, sketches, photographs, or the like are collected
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