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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The entire number of copies of a publication issued at one time or from a single set of type.
2. n. A single copy from this group.
3. n. The form in which a publication is issued: a paperback edition of a novel; an annotated edition of Shakespeare.
4. n. A version of an earlier publication having substantial changes or additions: a newly revised edition of a standard reference work.
5. n. All the copies of a specified issue of a newspaper: the morning edition; the Sunday edition.
6. n. A broadcast of a radio or television news program: Thursday's edition of the six o'clock news.
7. n. The entire number of like or identical items issued or produced as a set: a limited edition of early jazz recordings; a signed edition of a group of lithographs.
8. n. Any of the various or successive forms in which something is offered or presented: this year's edition of fall fashions from Paris.
9. n. One that closely resembles an original; a version: The boy was a smaller edition of his father.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of editing.
2. n. An edited copy or issue of a book or other work; a recension, or annotated reproduction: as, Milman's edition of Gibbon's “Rome”; the Globe edition of Shakspere.
3. n. A concurrent issue or publication of copies of a book or some similar production; the number of books, etc., of the same kind published together, or without change of form or of contents; a multiplication or reproduction of the same work or series of works: as, a large edition of a book, map, or newspaper; the work has reached a tenth edition; the folio editions of Shakspere's plays.
4. n. Figuratively, one of several forms or states in which something appears at different times; a copy; an exemplar.
5. To edit; publish.

Wiktionary

1. n. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.
2. n. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner
2. n. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an issue of a newspaper
2. n. the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published
3. n. something a little different from others of the same type
4. n. all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time