edition

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See also: édition

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

edition (plural editions)

  1. (publishing) 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.
  2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.
    The first edition was soon sold.
  3. An instance of or :
    What he had found was a particularly valuable first edition.
  4. (sports) A particular instance of an event.
    The 2014 edition of the Tour de France started in Leeds, Yorkshire.

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Further reading

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “edition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Noun

edition c (singular definite editionen, plural indefinite editioner)

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Declension

Declension of edition
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative edition editionen editioner editionerne
genitive editions editionens editioners editionernes

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Finnish

Noun

edition

  1. genitive singular of editio

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