stamp album
- noun
- /stæmp ˈælbəm/
:
álbum de sellos
- During the day, there were the household sounds, the metallic click of knitting needles, and the rustle of stamp-album pages turning.
- pages of my stamp album
Examples
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The meeting room had a display featuring a vintage stamp album with stamps dating back to the 1800s.
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As a former philatelist, I can experience punctuational chaos vicariously in the pages of my stamp album by tracing the hyperinflations of Hungary in 1946 and Germany in 1923.
Academic text (1992) -
The judge turned a page in a stamp album.
Fiction book (1998) -
My grandfather keeps his rare stamps in a beautiful stamp album on the shelf.
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As a child, I loved to browse through my father's stamp album filled with stamps from around the world.
Synonyms
319
3.1
A collection of tickets or stamps fastened together along one edge
124
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
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a book for organizing and displaying postage stamps' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'stamp' (postage proof) with 'album' (a bound book for organizing items). This noun–noun composition follows a common and cross-linguistically regular pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The compound stamp album is a simple idea: stamp is the small postage picture and album is a book, so collectors put stamps on the pages to show and protect them. That's why a stamp album means 'a book for organising and displaying a collection of postage stamps'.