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version

version

101 2.8
A person's story of what happened
  • noun
  • /ˈvɜrʒən/
: versión
  • Everyone has their own version of the story, but I believe hers is the most accurate.
  • a version of events
  • one's own version
  • a different version

And they say some version of it was all her fault.

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Examples

  • 'Cause you know, people can have different versions of the same thing.

  • What would the boldest, most fearless version of you be doing?

  • And they say some version of it was all her fault.

  • OK, Is this version what I want to become?

  • And we get stuck in our version of truth and what is right.

  • It's the adult version of the popular television game show.

  • Care to give us your version?

  • So can the U.S. economy avoid even a moderate version of the "Japan disease"?

    Academic text (2011)
  • He wants to be the best version of himself for you.

  • Subscribers could order a colorized version of the map for an extra fee.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

perspective
vsversion
∞ 4.1

A way of thinking shaped by your beliefs or experiences

focuses on the resulting form or account rather than personal source
perspective on
vsversion
133 4.2

A way of thinking about a subject or issue

is the particular account formed from that subject view
viewpoint
vsversion
119 4.1

A person's way of thinking about something

is the account or form that results from that stance

Compounds

The first form of a book, film, or show before any change

An English translation of the Bible first published in 1611

A new recording of a song that another artist made popular

An English translation of the Bible based on the King James Version first published in the United States in 1901

An English translation of the Bible first published in the mid 1900s

A computer model of a person or thing used to test and show how it works

An English Bible translation first published in 1611 and called the King James Version

1 3.7

A small copy of something, like a toy or model

An English Bible translation made from a Latin Bible by Catholic scholars in Douay and Rheims in the 1500s

An English Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars

A revised edition of the King James Bible made in the United States in the late 1800s

réchauffé version
  • Literature
9.9

An idea or work copied from before that feels old and not new

An English translation of the Bible made from the Latin Vulgate by Catholic scholars around 1600

How Distinct

incarnation
23 6.3
form
382 1.3
version
101 2.8
iteration
35 5.1

Surface Forms

version singular
versions plural

Morphology

version = vers + ion

The meaning 'an account or viewpoint' cannot be reliably inferred from the non-productive root 'vers-' plus '-ion' by most learners, so the relation is opaque.

Etymology

Version comes from the Latin word vertere meaning 'to turn'. That's why someone's version of events is the way they 'turn' or present the story — their own account or point of view.