Text Edition (Noun)
Meaning
A book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The biology department relied on the latest text edition of their core curriculum to update their lecture materials.
- She picked up a used copy of the previous text edition to compare it with the new one her professor assigned.
- Under the influence of his passion for the classics, the scholar spent two years preparing his magnum opus as a new text edition for publication.
- Comparing different text editions often allowed historians to reevaluate earlier period interpretations.
- There were complaints among students about the extreme price hike of the text edition that their instructor insisted on using.