Album
['ælbəm]
Definition
(noun.) a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc.
(noun.) 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.
Checked by Justin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
(n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.
(n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.
Checker: Roderick
Definition
n. among the Romans a white tablet or register on which the pr鎡or's edicts and such public notices were recorded: a blank book for the insertion of portraits autographs poetical extracts memorial verses postage-stamps or the like.—adj. Al′bumē′an and n. Al′bumess whimsical coinages of Charles Lamb.
Checked by Bonnie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an album, denotes you will have success and true friends. For a young woman to dream of looking at photographs in an album, foretells that she will soon have a new lover who will be very agreeable to her.
Checked by Dick
Examples
- She took her hand off the little album as suddenly as if it had turned hot and burnt her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Before I could say a word she had turned away to her book-case, and had taken from it the album that contained Walter Hartright's drawings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She is standing alone at the table, bending gracefully over an album. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On this occasion they wandered to the album, and toyed absently about the margin of the little water-colour drawing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The hand on the album resigned its hold, trembled a little, and moved the book away from her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I pointed to a little album which lay on the table by her side and which she had evidently been looking over when I came in. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She hesitated; her colour came and went, and her hand stole back again to the little album. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then Georgiana produced her album. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They put 'em in albums, I believe. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Editor: Meredith