/ ˈælbəm; NAmE / noun
1.
a book in which you keep photographs, stamps, etc. :
a photo album
2.
a collection of pieces of music that have been recorded on one record, CD or cassette :
the band's latest album
—compare single
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WORD ORIGIN
early 17th cent.: from Latin , neuter of albus white used as a noun meaning a blank tablet . Taken into English from the German use of the Latin phrase album amicorum album of friends (a blank book in which autographs, drawings, poems, etc. were collected), it was originally used consciously as a Latin word.