Edition

German Meaning

Ausgabe

Auflage

Version

Bearbeitung

English Meaning

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