edition
the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,868 of 81,628 words measured. It occurs 21,720 times across 191,625 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published
- all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time the first edition appeared in 1920it was too late for the morning edition
- an issue of a newspaper he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times
- something a little different from others of the same type also: version, variant, variation an experimental version of the night fightera variant of the same word
edition in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Other minor poems first appeared in Gifford's edition of Works.
The Alchemist · Ben Jonson · Chapter 1
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Second edition, revised and corrected, with large additions, by the Author.
The Fall of British Tyranny · John Leacock · Chapter 1
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The latest edition of a work of science is the most valuable; of literature, the earliest.
The Advance of English Poetry in · William Lyon Phelps · Chapter 1
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Speech of Apemantus, printed as prose in Theobald's edition:-- So, so! aches contract, and starve your supple joints!
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 2 · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Chapter 3
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ANY edition of my poems published in England by any firm except Messrs. Gay and Hancock is pirated and not authentic.
Poems of Experience · Ella Wheeler Wilcox · Chapter 1