photograph album
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈfoʊtəˌgræf ˈælbəm/
:
álbum de fotografías
- The photograph album displayed images from their wedding day, showcasing the joy of that special occasion.
- contains a photograph album
Examples
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I have created a beautiful photograph album filled with memories from our family vacations.
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As he was looking for a book, he came across a photograph album.
Fiction book (1996) -
The collection contains a photograph album of children and staff at the home in 1942.
Academic text (2010) -
The top drawer held a photograph album.
Fiction book (1992) -
One of my elderly society colleagues asked me the other day: "I have nobody to pass my family photograph albums to."
Blog text (5) -
The collection contains three photograph albums from circa 1908-1914 with photographs of various members of the Northern family.
Academic text (2010) -
Then she pored, as she had the last three evenings, through an old photograph album she'd found mouldering in a bureau.
Fiction book (1997) -
She flipped through the pages of her old photograph album, reminiscing about the happy moments captured inside.
Synonyms
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1.9
A book with blank pages and pockets for keeping photographs or stamps
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2.1
A book where you keep photos, ticket stubs, and other items that remind you of events
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Morphology
The meaning 'a book with pages used to collect and display photographs' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'photograph' (a picture made by a camera) with 'album' (a bound book for collections). This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Photograph album comes from the old word album, which meant a 'blank book' people used for writing notes or pasting things, and families began sticking 'photos' into these books. That's why a photograph album is a book for collecting and showing pictures.