First Known Use: 1555
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edition
noun edi·tion \i-ˈdi-shən\
: a particular version of a book
: a particular version of a product
: all the copies of a book that are printed or published at one time
Full Definition of EDITION
1
a : the form or version in which a text is published <a paperback edition> <the German edition> b (1) : the whole number of copies published at one time (2) : a usually special issue of a newspaper (as for a particular day or purpose) <Sunday edition> <international edition> (3) : one of the usually several issues of a newspaper in a single day <city edition> <late edition>
2
a : one of the forms in which something is presented <this year's edition of the annual charity ball> b : the whole number of articles of one style put out at one time <a limited edition of collectors' pieces>
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Rhymes with EDITION
addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition
EDITION Defined for Kids
edition
noun edi·tion \i-ˈdi-shən\
Definition of EDITION for Kids
1
: the form in which a book is published <a paperback edition>
2
: the whole number of copies of a book, magazine, or newspaper published at one time <the third edition>
3
: one of several issues of a newspaper for a single day <the evening edition>
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