edition

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the form in which a text, especially a printed book, is published

   The digital edition of this novel has a new forward by the author.

2. 2
   noun

   an issue of a newspaper

   They read it in yesterday's edition.

3. 3
   noun

   all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time

   the first edition appeared in 1920

4. 4
   noun

   A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time.

   She wanted a copy of the Clericotes edition, but had to settle for the 1921 edition. She had never liked abridged editions.

5. 5
   noun

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

   The first edition was soon sold.

6. 6
   noun

   An instance of the first or second sense.

   What he had found was a particularly valuable first edition.

7. 7
   noun

   A particular instance of an event.

   The 2014 edition of the Tour de France started in Leeds, Yorkshire.

8. 8
   noun

   something a little different from others of the same type

Etymology

From French édition, from Latin ēditiō, from ēdere (“to publish”).