EDITION

version, variant, variation, edition

(noun) something a little different from others of the same type; “an experimental version of the night fighter”; “a variant of the same word”; “an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone”; “the boy is a younger edition of his father”

edition

(noun) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published

edition

(noun) an issue of a newspaper; “he read it in yesterday’s edition of the Times”

edition

(noun) all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; “the first edition appeared in 1920”; “it was too late for the morning edition”; “they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

edition (plural editions)

(publishing) A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.

The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.

(sport) A particular instance of an event.

Anagrams

• noetiid, odinite, tenioid, tineoid

Source: Wiktionary


E*di"tion, n. Etym: [L. editio, fr. edere to publish; cf. F. Ă©dition. See Edit.]

1. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.

2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

29 April 2024

SUBDUCTION

(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate


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