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e⋅di⋅tion

[i-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; (< MF) < L ēditiōn- (s. of ēditiō) publication, equiv. to ēdit(us) (ptp. of ēdere; see edit ) + -iōn- -ion
e·di·tion   (ĭ-dĭsh'ən)   
n.  
    1. The entire number of copies of a publication issued at one time or from a single set of type.
    2. A single copy from this group.
    3. The form in which a publication is issued: a paperback edition of a novel; an annotated edition of Shakespeare.
    4. A version of an earlier publication having substantial changes or additions: a newly revised edition of a standard reference work.
    5. The entire number of like or identical items issued or produced as a set: a limited edition of early jazz recordings; a signed edition of a group of lithographs.
    6. Any of the various or successive forms in which something is offered or presented: this year's edition of fall fashions from Paris.
  1. All the copies of a specified issue of a newspaper: the morning edition; the Sunday edition.
  2. A broadcast of a radio or television news program: Thursday's edition of the six o'clock news.
    1. The entire number of like or identical items issued or produced as a set: a limited edition of early jazz recordings; a signed edition of a group of lithographs.
    2. Any of the various or successive forms in which something is offered or presented: this year's edition of fall fashions from Paris.
  3. One that closely resembles an original; a version: The boy was a smaller edition of his father.

[Middle English edicion, version, translation, from Latin ēditiō, ēditiōn-, publication, production, from ēditus, past participle of ēdere, to publish, produce; see edit.]

Edition

E*di"tion\, n. [L. editio, fr. edere to publish; cf. F. ['e]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.
Language Translation for : edition
Spanish: edición,
German: die Auflage, die Ausgabe,
Japanese:

edition 
1551, "act of publishing," from L. editionem (nom. editio) "a bringing forth, producing," from stem of edere "bring forth, produce," from ex- "out" + -dere, comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (1)). Meaning "form of a literary work" is from 1570. "It is awkward to speak of, e.g. 'The second edition of Campbell's edition of Plato's "Theætetus"'; but existing usage affords no satisfactory substitute for this inconvenient mode of expression" [OED]. Edit is 1791, probably as a back-formation of editor (1649), which, from its original meaning "publisher" had evolved by 1712 a sense of "person who prepares written matter for publication;" specific sense in newspapers is from 1803. Editorial "newspaper article by an editor" is Amer.Eng. 1830. Hence, editorialize (1856), "introduce opinions into factual accounts."
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