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edition

edition

58 3.5
A slightly different version of a person or thing
  • noun
  • /ɪˈdɪʃən/
translation icon : edición
  • This is the 7:00 a. m. edition of Action News.
  • standard edition

This is Startalk Sports Edition, a Cosmic Queries version.

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Examples

  • Careful there, it's a limited edition.

  • Get me a big house... get me a library full of first editions.

  • I believe the newer editions have a different name.

  • And I'm trying to find pretty editions when I can.

  • According to them, there's nothing left except a few first editions, some clothes, and the cat.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • l have a little collection of first-edition novels.

  • This is a first undergraduate course in abstract algebra, second edition, Hillman and Alexanderson.

  • They're the rarest, the choicest editions in existence.

  • The library has a rare first edition of the classic novel.

  • He proudly displayed his collection of limited editions of famous artworks.

Synonyms

version
vsedition
2.0

A different form of something, like a book or program

is narrower, used when the change is only small compared with another
variation
vsedition
77 3.3

A different form of something, like a design or recipe

is about small alternate forms rather than broad or biological differences
variant
vsedition
53 4.9

A different form of something, like a virus or recipe

is used for forms that are only slightly different from another
modification
vsedition
50 3.6

A slightly changed version of something

is a distinct form that is only slightly different from another
incarnation
vsedition
23 6.3

A certain form or version of something, like a newer model

focuses on small differences between similar items rather than temporal identity

Antonyms

675 2.7

Generally used and accepted as correct

Compounds

A product like a book or shoe made in a small fixed number for sale

11 3.0

A version of a book that contains changes and is printed again

7.2

A paper version of a book, magazine, or newspaper

A small paperback book that fits in a pocket

trade edition
  • Jargon
4.0

A book sold to the public in regular bookstores

9.9

A version of a text showing editors' notes and different wordings

How Different

adaptation
60 3.4
variant
1 5.3
version
2.0
edition
58 3.5
derivative
26 7.2

Surface Forms

edition singular
editions plural

Morphology

edition = edit (transparent) = edit + ion

The meaning 'a slightly different form or version' follows directly from the nominalizing '-ion' applied to 'edit' as the product or instance of editing.

Etymology

Edition also comes from the Latin root edit meaning 'to put out', like in edit and editor. So a second sense of edition means a new version or form that is 'put out', which is why we can call someone a younger edition of their parent.