album
English
/ˈælbəm/
noun
Definitions
- A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
- A collection, especially of literary items
- A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
- A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
- A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
- (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin album (blank white writing tablet, register, the colour white, blank tablet, tablet).
Origin
Latin
album
Gloss
blank white writing tablet, register, the colour white, blank tablet, tablet
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- minialbum English
- multialbum English
- nonalbum English
- albumi Finnish
- albarium Latin
- album Latin
- Album German
- Fotoalbum German
- album Hungarian
- albo Italian
- album Italian
- album Dutch, Flemish
- album French
- альбо́м Russian
- альбом Russian
- álbum Spanish, Castilian
- album Norwegian Bokmål
- álbum Portuguese
- album Swedish
- album Norwegian Nynorsk
- albam Irish
- album Danish
- musikalbum Danish
- ألبوم Arabic
- album Serbo-Croatian
- àlbum Catalan, Valencian
- अल्बम Hindi
- album Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- อัลบั้ม Thai
- άλμπουμ Greek (modern)
- albwm Welsh
- albüm Turkish
- အယ်လဘမ် Burmese
- אלבום Hebrew (modern)
- 앨범 Korean
- ألبوم Hijazi Arabic
- ailbom Bourguignon