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edition - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'edition' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Edition [ n.]
- 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.
- The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

Meaning of 'edition' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . edition [ n]
Meaning (1):
- something a little different from others of the same type
Example in sentence:
  • a variant of the same word;
  • an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone;
  • an experimental version of the night fighter;
  • the boy is a younger edition of his father
Meaning (2):
- an issue of a newspaper
Example in sentence:
  • he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times
Meaning (3):
- all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time
Example in sentence:
  • it was too late for the morning edition;
  • the first edition appeared in 1920;
  • they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings