original version
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4.1
- noun
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versión original
- In 1962, film director Borge Host discovered that the original version of the film had disappeared.
- compared to the original version
- original version of the survey
- structure of the original version
Examples
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Mr Leroux, I have seen your original version of this book, which was printed in English.
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In the original version of the movie, the ending was very different from the one we saw in theaters.
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Well, let's have a look at the original version of the photo we found on your phone.
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Do you read foreign books in translation or in the original versions?
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How accurate is my performance or recreation in relation to the original version?
Academic text (2015) -
My feeling with Mr. B's works is that most of the time the original version is the best.
Academic text (2000) -
What astonishes, on rereading the novels in their original versions, is how much Updike got right the first time.
Fiction book (2000) -
We should first read the original version of the manuscript before making any edits.
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The original version of the song features different lyrics that some fans prefer.
Synonyms
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The first version of something from which copies are made
The first written version of a text or music score without later changes
The first version of something, not a copy
Antonyms
How Unchanged
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the first or unaltered form' is directly and transparently built from 'original' (first, primary) combined with 'version' (edition or variant). This straightforward noun + noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Original version comes from the idea of the writer's first copy: original means the first and version means a particular form. Imagine the author putting that first copy in a drawer before anyone changes it, so the 'original version' is the work 'not changed' and means the first form of something.