Editions

[ih-dish-uhn]

e·di·tion

[ih-dish-uhn]
noun
1.
one of a series of printings of the same book, newspaper, etc., each issued at a different time and differing from another by alterations, additions, etc. (distinguished from impression).
2.
the format in which a literary work is published: a one-volume edition of Shakespeare.
3.
the whole number of impressions or copies of a book, newspaper, etc., printed from one set of type at one time.
4.
a version of anything, printed or not, presented to the public: the newest edition of a popular musical revue.

Origin:
1545–55; (< Middle French ) < Latin ēditiōn- (stem of ēditiō) publication, equivalent to ēdit(us) (past participle of ēdere; see edit) + -iōn- -ion

pre·e·di·tion, noun

addition, edition.
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Editions is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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