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

Battlefield 6, the first edition of the franchise since 2022,will go head-to-head with rival first-person shooter series Call of Duty, an annual release published by Activision, which is now owned by Microsoft. —Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2025

The first edition of the 2027 Style Report from CottonWorks by Cotton Incorporated describes how these trends and more are shaping the future of cotton fashion. —Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2025

Since that first edition, according to Baehr, the City of Milwaukee has added 57 new streets. —Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025

Of those 1,500 first editions, only a few hundred are believed to remain. —India Brown, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2025

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