In a sentence
Six example sentences with edition, each labelled with its topic.
The 1897 edition prints the poem in two columns with the author's footnotes, while later printings drop them entirely.
Literature
Scholars prefer the 1611 edition because its wide margins carry corrections that the cheaper pocket printing silently removed.
History
Every clerk keeps the current edition of the code on the desk, since the bound volume from 1998 misstates three deadlines.
Law
The new edition of the sonata restores the composer's own fingerings, which every printing since 1890 had quietly replaced.
Music
The fifth edition of the rulebook rewrote the spellcasting chapter, and old tables argued for months about which version to use.
Gaming
Scholars cite the critical edition of Kant, whose margins record every variant between the first and second printings.
Philosophy
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
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