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Edition

noun

The form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published.

All of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time. "It was too late for the morning edition" , "They issued a limited edition of Bach recordings"

An issue of a newspaper.

Something a little different from others of the same type. Synonyms: variant, variation, version. "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"

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"Edition" Quotes from Famous Books

... up a good deal of our time was our personal outfit. The question of boots was gone into thoroughly. Most of us were in favour of the big outer boots, but in a revised edition. There were a few — but extremely few — who declared for nothing but soft foot-gear. In this case it did not make so much difference, since they all knew that the big boots would have to be brought on the final journey on account of possible ...

— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen

... fifth edition of a remarkable volume. Already over 20,000 copies have been sold—and little wonder, for it is a book to read and re-read. It will rivet the attention of the reader, and hold it right through. It pulsates with ...

— Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker

... must have impressed Breithaupt, for, as you perhaps know, it was after he heard me play that he wrote his famous book on 'Weight Touch,' which is dedicated to me. A second and revised edition of this work, by the way, is an improvement on the first. Many artists and musicians have told me I have a special quality of tone; if this is true I am convinced this quality is the result of ...

— Piano Mastery - Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers • Harriette Brower

... o'clock yesterday evening. This scrap of newspaper bears yesterday's date, with the words, 'Evening edition.' Also, you will see here, pasted to the paper, a bit of one of those yellow wrappers in which the subscribers' copies are sent out. These copies are always delivered by the nine o'clock post. Therefore, it was after nine o'clock. I said, ...

— The Confessions of Arsene Lupin • Maurice Leblanc

... researches on a system; but his love of chemistry and his imaginative faculty led him to wish in anticipation for the forces of nature to be utilised for human labour, &c. Shelley's reading and reading powers were enormous. He was seldom without a pocket edition of one of his favourite great authors, whose works he read with as much ease as the ...

— Mrs. Shelley • Lucy M. Rossetti

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