edition
A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time.
Example
“She wanted a copy of the Clericotes edition, but had to settle for the 1921 edition. She had never liked abridged editions.”
Other meanings
The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.
“The first edition was soon sold.”
An instance of the first or second sense.
“What he had found was a particularly valuable first edition.”
Related words
- first edition
- coedition
- editioned
- editioning
- interedition
- misedition
- author's edition
- bulldog edition
- limited edition
- cabinet edition
- co-edition
- collector's edition
Word history
From Latin "ēditiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “edition” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.