record album
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- noun
- /ˈrɛkərd ˈælbəm/
- Bennett also lacked Sinatra's sure grasp of the concept of the record album as an art object.
- stack of record albums
- selling record albums
- old record albums
Examples
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I just purchased a vintage record album with all my favorite songs from the '80s.
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She slides a vinyl record album out of the sleeve and moves to the turntable on a shelf, thick with dust.
Fiction book (2000) -
Later that day at home, I discovered that my father had the record album!
Blog text (10) -
- Terry, this is a record album.
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And we've got a new song we think is good enough for a record album.
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When my father informed me that they were making out the will and asked if there was anything I wanted in particular, I told him I wanted this record album.
Blog text (28) -
The topmost shelf is a line of record albums.
Fiction book (2001) -
Second prize: all the Partridge Family record albums and a phonograph.
Fiction book (1996) -
The box also contains stacks and stacks of used record albums.
Fiction book (1994) -
Her latest record album features a mix of classic rock and modern pop hits.
Synonyms
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1.4
A set of songs that an artist or band releases together as one item
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3.5
A collection of songs, stories, and data gathered into one book or album
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5.5
A large vinyl record used to play music on a record player
How Much Music
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'record' (a physical disc or recording format) plus 'album' (a collection of audio tracks): together they indicate an album in record form. This noun‑noun compounding follows common English patterns and is cross‑linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Record album was first used when companies sold several separate records together in a book-like package, like a photo album, and later kept the name when those songs were put on one disc. So today record album means 'a collection of songs released together'.