edition
/ɪˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ nom B1En français : édition
- A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time. · She wanted a copy of the Clericotes edition, but had to settle for the 1921 edition. She had never liked abridged editions.
- The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time. · The first edition was soon sold.
- An instance of the first or second sense. · What he had found was a particularly valuable first edition.
- A particular instance of an event. · The 2014 edition of the Tour de France started in Leeds, Yorkshire.
Pluriel editions
Dans la bibliothèque
“Yes, the local evening paper has an excellent account in its last edition.
Besides, the editions of Holy Writ are so numerous that he could hardly suppose that two copies would have the same pagination.
There, seated before a walnut table he had brought with him from Hartwell, and to which, from one of those fancies not uncommon to great people, he was particularly attached, the king, Louis XVIII., was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius’s rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horace—a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.
Pocket edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron, with name of Joseph Stangerson upon the fly-leaf.
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