a blank book for the insertion of photographs, stamps, or pictures 相册,集邮簿,画册 the wedding pictures had pride of place in the family album. 结婚照在家庭相册中占着首要位置。
a collection of recordings, on long-playing record, cassette, or CD, which are issued as a single item 合集(作为单曲发行的唱片、磁带或CD合集)
语源
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', it was originally used consciously as a Latin word with Latin inflections