album Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    record album.
  2. noun a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc

WordNet

Al"bum noun
Etymology
L., neut. of albus white: cf. F. album. Cf. Alb.
Definitions
  1. (Rom. Antiq.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
  2. A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.
  3. A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

Webster 1913