What does Record mean?

Definitions for Recordrɪˈkɔrd; ˈrɛk ərd

Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Record.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. record(noun)


    "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"

  2. phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc, platter(noun)


  3. record(noun)

    the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had

    "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"

  4. record, track record(noun)

    the sum of recognized accomplishments

    "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"

  5. record, record book, book(noun)

    a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone


  6. record(noun)


    "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"

  7. record(noun)

    a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction

    "they could find no record of the purchase"

  8. criminal record, record(verb)


    "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long"

  9. record, enter, put down(verb)

    make a record of; set down in permanent form

  10. record, tape(verb)

    register electronically

    "They recorded her singing"

  11. read, register, show, record(verb)

    indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments


  12. record, register(verb)

    be aware of

    "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"

  13. commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record(verb)

    be or provide a memorial to a person or an event


Webster Dictionary

  1. Record(verb)

    to recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate

  2. Record(verb)

    to repeat; to recite; to sing or play

  3. Record(verb)

    to preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events

  4. Record(verb)

    to reflect; to ponder

  5. Record(verb)

    to sing or repeat a tune

  6. Record(verb)

    a writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record

  7. Record(verb)

    an official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes

  8. Record(verb)

    an authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law

  9. Record(verb)

    an official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record

  10. Record(verb)

    the various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record

  11. Record(verb)

    testimony; witness; attestation

  12. Record(verb)

    that which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial

  13. Record(verb)

    that which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record

  14. Record(verb)

    that which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race

  15. Origin: [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]


  1. Record

    The Record is the fortnightly news magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific region of the church. Its office is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and connected with the Adventist Media Network. The magazine is printed by Signs Publishing Company, located outside of Melbourne, in Victoria. Record was first published in 1898 in Victoria, replacing an earlier title known as the Gleaner. It currently has a circulation of 26,000, mainly to Seventh-day Adventists in Australia and New Zealand. Pablo Lillo is the current editor and has been in the role since late 2009. In April 2010, distribution also commenced in urban areas of the Fiji Islands and Papua New Guinea. Adventists receive it free of charge at church.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Record

    rē-kord′, v.t. to write anything formally, to preserve evidence of it: to bear witness to: to register or enrol: to celebrate.—adj. Record′able, able to be recorded, worthy of record.—ns. Recordā′tion (Shak.), remembrance; Record′er, one who records or registers, esp. the rolls, &c., of a city: a judge of a city or borough court of quarter-sessions: an old musical instrument somewhat like a flageolet, but with the lower part wider than the upper, and a mouthpiece resembling the beak of a bird: a registering apparatus in telegraphy; Record′ership, the office of recorder, or the time of holding it. [O. Fr. recorder—L. recordāre, to call to mind—re-, again, cor, cordis, the heart.]

  2. Record

    rek′ord, n. a register: a formal writing of any fact or proceeding: a book of such writings: a witness, a memorial: memory, remembrance: anything entered in the rolls of a court, esp. the formal statements or pleadings of parties in a litigation.—n. Rec′ord-off′ice, a place where public records are kept.—Beat, or Break, the record, to outdo the highest achievement yet done; Close the record, an act of a Scottish judge after each party has said all he wishes to say by way of statement and answer; Public records, contemporary authenticated statements of the proceedings of the legislature, and the judgments of those higher courts of law known as Courts of Record; Trial by record, a common law mode of trial when a disputed former decision of the court is settled by producing the record.

Editors Contribution

  1. record

    Is an analog lyric and musical sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl disc.

    We go down the record store some weekends with our Granddad as he loves to browse through the records and buy one if he likes it.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Record' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #784

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Record' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1026

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Record' in Nouns Frequency: #188

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Record' in Verbs Frequency: #227


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Record in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Record in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Anonymous:

    Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one (YN)

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  4. Martin Luther King, Jr.:


  5. Theresa May:

    An internet connection record is a record of the communications service that a person has used - not a record of every web page they have accessed, it is simply the modern equivalent of an itemised phone bill.

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Translations for Record

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

  • rekordAfrikaans
  • أسطوانة, سجل, دفتر, رقم قياسي, تسجيلArabic
  • záznam, deska, nahrát, nahrávat, zaznamenat, rekordCzech
  • optegne, markere, registrere, indspille, grammofonplade, post, optegnelse, bevidne, rekord, dokument, plade, optageDanish
  • eintragen, Schallplatte, Datensatz, aufzeichnen, Aufnahme, Bestleistung, protokollieren, Rekord, Aufzeichnung, HöchstleistungGerman
  • αναγράφω, εγγράφω, εγγραφή, καταχώρηση, ρεκόρ, καταγραφή, βινύλιο, δίσκος, γράφω, καταγράφω, ανώτατη επίδοσηGreek
  • rekordoEsperanto
  • registro, récord, anotar, grabar, registrarSpanish
  • رکوردPersian
  • tallentaa, tietue, levyttää, nauhoittaa, LP-levy, levy, tallenne, ennätys, äänilevy, äänittää, taltioida, merkitä, rekisteröidäFinnish
  • record, enregistrement, enregistrer, disqueFrench
  • rekord, csúcs, feljegyez, felvétel, lemezHungarian
  • menjar, plata, heimild, met, skrá, hljómplata, skýrsla, færslaIcelandic
  • disco, registrare, primatoItalian
  • 収録, 記録, 録画, レコード, 録る, 録音, 記す, 最高記録, 成績Japanese
  • 기록하다, 레코드, 기록Korean
  • įrašas, diskas, plokštelė, rekordasLithuanian
  • piring hitamMalay
  • rekordNorwegian
  • verslag, record, opnemen, optekenenDutch
  • rekordNorwegian Nynorsk
  • nagraćPolish
  • vinil, gravar, registro, registrar, recordePortuguese
  • discuri, recorduri, disc-audio, disc de gramofon, disc-video, disc, recordRomanian
  • записа́ть, пластинка, грампластинка, запи́сывать, запись, рекорд, граммофонная пластинкаRussian
  • snimak, zapis, slog (m), rekord (m), snimkaSerbo-Croatian
  • platňaSlovak
  • spela in, nerteckning, rekord, inspelning, skiva, platta, post, antecknaSwedish
  • rekodiSwahili
  • kayıtTurkish
  • 记录Chinese

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