Hypertext Webster Gateway: "edition"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
edition
n 1: the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is
published
2: all of the identical copies of something offered to the
public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in
1920" or "it was too late for the morning edition" or
"they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings"
3: an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition
of the Times"
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