Meaning & Definition of Edition in English

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"

• "It was too late for the morning edition"

• "They issued a limited edition of bach recordings"

3. An issue of a newspaper

• "He read it in yesterday's edition of the times"

4. 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"