A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc. [1913 Webster]
A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book. [1913 Webster]
A blank book, in which to insert autographs, sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Album, n.
1 a blank book for the insertion of photographs, stamps, etc.
2 a a long-playing gramophone record. b a set of these.

Etymology

L, = a blank tablet, neut. of albus white

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THESAURUS

Album

Domesday Book, Festschrift, account book, address book, adversaria, ana, analects, annual, anthology, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, beauties, blankbook, blotter, calendar, canon, cashbook, catalog, chrestomathy, classified catalog, collectanea, collected works, collection, commonplace book, compilation, complete works, court calendar, daybook, delectus, desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, engagement book, florilegium, flowers, garden, garland, journal, ledger, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, miscellanea, miscellany, notebook, omnibus, pad, petty cashbook, photograph album, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, posy, quotation book, scrapbook, scratch pad, spiral notebook, symposium, table, tablet, triptych, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

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ROGET THESAURUS

Album

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Compendium

N compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression, compendious, synoptic, analectic, abrege, abridged, variorum, in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words, it lies in a nutshell.

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