phonograph album
- noun
- /ˈfoʊnəˌɡræf ˈæl.bəm/
- Archaic
:
álbum de discos
- She bought a new phonograph album yesterday.
Examples
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My grandfather showed me his old phonograph album filled with classic jazz records.
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The phonograph album was beautifully bound and had sleeves for each record.
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Collectors often hunt for rare phonograph albums in antique shops and flea markets.
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Do you have any old phonograph albums?
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She carefully placed her favorite phonograph album on the shelf beside her record player.
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The phonograph album contained classic hits from the 1960s that brought back fond memories.
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He opened the phonograph album to reveal a collection of beautifully designed record covers.
Synonyms
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A book with blank pages and pockets for keeping photographs or stamps
A book or case that holds and protects vinyl records
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: combining 'phonograph' (device for playing records) with 'album' (a collection or book-like item for recordings) yields an album related to phonograph records. Although 'album' can also mean a released set of tracks, the noun+noun construction clearly signals an album for or of phonograph records, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended sense.
Etymology
Phonograph album comes from the old days when people kept records in a book-like collection: a phonograph was an early record player and an album was a little book with sleeves for each record. People opened the book to take out records, so the phrase came to mean 'a book-like case for storing records'.