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The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.
Martin Bashir

Meaning of "album" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ALBUM

From Latin: blank tablet, from albus white.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ALBUM

album  [ˈælbəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALBUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Album is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ALBUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Album

An album is a musical recording originally in gramophone or vinyl format, then in other formats such as Compact Cassette, Compact disc, and increasingly in digital formats such as MP3, AAC, ALAC, or FLAC. Audio albums in physical form are often provided with decorative covers and liner notes and inserts about the music and recording, giving background information and analysis of the recording, lyrics and librettos, images of the performers, and other images and text, as well as thanking contributors. When supplied with compact discs they are known as CD booklets. Historically, the term "album" came from a collection of some form, and in musical usage the word was used for collections of short pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums. When long-playing records were introduced, a collection of pieces on a single record was called an album; the word was extended to other recording media such as compact disc, MiniDisc, Compact audio cassette, and digital or MP3 albums, as they were introduced.

Definition of album in the English dictionary

The first definition of album in the dictionary is a book or binder consisting of blank pages, pockets, or envelopes for keeping photographs, stamps, autographs, drawings, poems, etc. Other definition of album is one or more CDs, cassettes, or long-playing records released as a single item. Album is also a booklike holder containing sleeves for gramophone records.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALBUM


Brabham
ˈbræbəm
Cobham
ˈkɒbəm
plumbum
ˈplʌmbəm
sebum
ˈsiːbəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALBUM

albugineous
albugo
album chart
album cover
albumblatt
albumen
albumenise
albumenize
albumin
albuminate
albuminise
albuminize
albuminoid
albuminous
albuminuria
albuminuric
albumose
Albuquerque
alburnous
alburnum

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALBUM

beach bum
bum
compilation album
concept album
crumbum
debut album
double album
family album
glum bum
on the bum
photo album
photograph album
pig´s bum
stamp album
stewbum
stumblebum

Synonyms and antonyms of album in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ALBUM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «album» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of album

Translation of «album» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALBUM

Find out the translation of album to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of album from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «album» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

唱片
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

álbum
570 millions of speakers

English

album
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एल्बम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أَلْبُوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

альбом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

álbum
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অ্যালবাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

album
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Album
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Album
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アルバム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

앨범
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Album
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

album
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆல்பம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अल्बम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

albüm
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

album
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

album
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

альбом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

album
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

άλμπουμ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

album
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

album
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

album
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of album

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALBUM»

The term «album» is very widely used and occupies the 1.279 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALBUM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «album» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «album» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about album

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10 QUOTES WITH «ALBUM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word album.
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Sade Adu
If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
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Danny Aiello
At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.
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Anita Baker
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
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Martin Bashir
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.
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Gerry Beckley
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
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Gerry Beckley
I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
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Luke Bryan
With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.
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Young Buck
With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.
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Bat for Lashes
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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Vanessa Carlton
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALBUM»

Discover the use of album in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to album and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The White Album
"All of the essays manifest not only [Didion's] intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader's memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact.
Joan Didion, 1990
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Album
A tremendously impressive drama that received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.
David Rimmer, 1981
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Album Cover Album
Album Cover Album is edited and compiled by two designers who were among the most innovative pioneers of the work that it celebrates.
Roger Dean, Storm Thorgerson, 2008
4
Album
"'Album' exists as an artwork composed of images culled from a variety of books and magazines, montaged together on 50 panels of plastic laminate.
Luis Jacob, Art Metropole, 2002
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The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
A reference guide to the decade's top trends, performers, and sounds, reviews the most influential albums, provides biographical overviews of key artists, and considers how technology and the Internet have impacted the industry.
Nathan Brackett, Christian David Hoard, 2004
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An Album of Dated Syriac Manuscripts
The main reference for dating Syriac manuscripts and the standard in the field. This Album conveniently brings together two hundred facsimiles, each representing a page of a dated Syriac manuscript.
William Henry Paine Hatch, 2002
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Creative Wedding Album Design with Adobe Photoshop: ...
Pairing photographic creativity with digital-manipulation techniques, this unique manual teaches the use of Photoshop(R) to design artful, distinctive, and compelling wedding albums.
Mark Chen, 2009
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Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide: 50 Years of Jazz on Vinyl | ...
Tim Neely, author of eight recording industry price guides including the Standard Catalog of American Records has authored this comprehensive new anthology featuring thousands of musicians, composers and vocalists from the 40's through ...
Tim Neely, 2011
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The Black Album: Adapted for the Stage
Hanif Kureishi's witty stage adaptation of his strikingly prescient and acclaimed novel, The Black Album, humorously considers how the events of 1989 have shaped today's world, where fundamentalism battles liberalism.
Hanif Kureishi, 2010
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Classic Material: The Hip-hop Album Guide
With over forty unique reviews covering sixty landmark hip-hop albums spanning twenty years, Classic Material proves that there is no lack of intelligent commentary and criticism on rap music.
Oliver Wang, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALBUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term album is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lionel Richie tops UK album chart after Glastonbury set
The album, which reached No 10 on its release in 2003, jumped 103 positions this week. It is Richie's first UK No 1 album since Back to Front ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Meek Mill Is Loudly Reflective on His Second Album, 'Dreams Worth …
The first 90 seconds of Meek Mill's 2012 debut album, “Dreams and Nightmares,” are placid — no drums, just piano and strings. He's rapping ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Album Review: Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
Key Markets, the latest album from Sleaford Mods, is an impressive show of force from a duo with the chemistry that comes from having worked ... «Consequence of Sound, Jul 15»
4
Patients inspire oncology consultant's first album
The first song that made an impact on me became the album's title track. I'd witnessed a wife comforting her husband, who was dying. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
5
Video: JOHN CORABI Performs MÖTLEY CRÜE's Entire 1994 …
In a 2012 interview, MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars stated about the band's 1994 self-titled album: "I thought that was probably… To me ... «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Jul 15»
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Album Review: Between The Buried And Me – Coma Ecliptic
Between the Buried and Me offer their own interpretation of this chaos on their seventh studio album, Coma Ecliptic, a rock opera about a man ... «Consequence of Sound, Jul 15»
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KING DIAMOND: Next Album Will Be 'The Best You've Ever Heard …
Legendary Danish heavy metal singer King Diamond (MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND) was interviewed on the June 19-21 edition of Full ... «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Jul 15»
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Britney Spears Recreates Oops Album Cover With Sons Jayden and …
Britney Spears and sons Britney Spears and her sons playfully recreated her Oops! ...I Did It Again album cover on Saturday, July 4. Credit: ... «Us Magazine, Jul 15»
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Kanye West Is Reportedly The Lone Feature On The Weeknd's …
He's got one feature on his album, which is Kanye West. He doesn't want to do that.” Thoughts? The album should be out sometime in 2015. «HotNewHipHop, Jul 15»
10
Lil Wayne drops Free Weezy Album, listen and stream entire album
Lil Wayne reached a deal with Tidal to drop a 15-track album on the streaming service title Free Weezy Album. Maybe not so coincidentally Lil ... «FanSided, Jul 15»

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