1. (

• edition ,

) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published ;

2. (

• edition

) 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" ;

3. (

• edition

) an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times" ;

4. (

• version ,
• variant ,
• variation ,
• edition

) 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" ;