record album
- noun
- /ˈrɛkərd ˈælbəm/
- Archaic
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disco
- The record album had spaces for her to carefully store each disc and its sleeve.
Examples
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My grandfather still keeps his old jazz records in a record album on the shelf.
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She found a vintage record album at the flea market, filled with rare vinyls.
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She bought a new record album yesterday.
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Do you have that record album by The Beatles?
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My grandfather still keeps his old jazz records in a record album on the shelf.
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The record album had spaces for her to carefully store each disc and its sleeve.
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She found a vintage record album at the flea market, filled with rare vinyls.
Synonyms
A book-like case for holding vinyl records
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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 comes from old 'album' books people used to collect photos or notes in; makers used the same book-like idea to store flat records, so record album came to mean 'a book or case to hold records'.