Associations to the word «Edition»

Wiktionary

EDITION, noun. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.
EDITION, noun. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.

Dictionary definition

EDITION, noun. The form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published.
EDITION, noun. All of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings".
EDITION, noun. An issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times".
EDITION, noun. Something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky