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English Dictionary: edition	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
edition n 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 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings" 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; "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" Synonym(s): version, variant, variation, edition
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Edition \Edi"tion\, n. [L. editio, fr. edere to publish; cf. F. [82]dition. See {Edit}.] 1. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition* of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare. 2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.