edition

edi·tion

noun \i-ˈdi-shən\

Definition of EDITION

1

a : the form or version in which a text is published <a paperback edition> <the German edition>

b (1) : the whole number of copies published at one time (2) : a usually special issue of a newspaper (as for a particular day or purpose) <Sunday edition> <international edition> (3) : one of the usually several issues of a newspaper in a single day <city edition> <late edition>

2

a : one of the forms in which something is presented <this year's edition of the annual charity ball>

b : the whole number of articles of one style put out at one time <a limited edition of collectors' pieces>

3

: copy, version

Examples of EDITION

1. the latest edition of the software
2. The errors were corrected in the book's second edition.

Origin of EDITION

Middle French, from Latin edition-, editio publication, edition, from edere to bring forth, publish, from e- + -dere to put or -dere (from dare to give) — more at do, date

First Known Use: 1555

Other Publishing Terms

annotate, dreadful, emend, expurgate, factoid, jump, lobster shift, redaction, referee

Rhymes with EDITION

addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition