first edition

noun

: the copies of a literary work first printed from the same type and issued at the same time

also : a single copy from a first edition

Examples of first edition in a Sentence

There were many errors in the book's first edition.

She owns a valuable first edition of Huckleberry Finn.

Recent Examples on the Web

As its name suggests, the Art+Film Gala each year honors a visual artist and a filmmaker, and has become a fixture of Los Angeles’s art calendar since its first edition in 2011, which was dedicated to John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Clive Davis‘s famed pre-Grammy gala will continue this Grammy season, the Recording Academy confirmed on Thursday, marking the event’s first edition since the prolific music executive’s passing four months ago. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

The international jury will be chaired by Nicolas Winding Refn, whose platform byNWR joins MUBI, the festival’s partner since its first edition. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026

Kim, who co-founded the festival in 1996 and raised nearly the entire budget for its inaugural edition single-handedly, also secured the abolition of censorship for films screened at that first edition. — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1542, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for first edition

• abolition
• acquisition
• admonition
• ammunition
• apparition
• apposition
• coalition
• competition
• composition
• definition
• deglutition
• demolition