version

UK/ˈvɜːʒn̩/US/ˈvɝʒən/

nounB12 meanings Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,780 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: versions

A version is one form of something that exists in several. The same thing, done differently.

Software made the word ordinary, and version numbers, the latest version and an older version are all everyday. It also means one person's account of events, so his version of what happened may differ from hers, which is a polite way of saying somebody is lying. Music has cover versions and films have director's cuts. The verb versioning is technical, and a version control system is what programmers keep their history in.

Definitions of version

1nounversionA particular form of something that exists in more than one form.B1~98%
“This is the paperback version.”
2nounaccountOne person's account of an event.B1~2%
“His version of the argument was quite different.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 20 sentences found in the wild and placed 20 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*wert-
Latin
vertō — to turn
Medieval Latin
versiō
Middle French
version
English, today
version

Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“to turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 27 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

version in the wild

Agamemnon was killed upon his return from Troy by Clytemnestra, or in an older version of the story, by Clytemnestra's lover Aegisthus.
Agamemnon
Many scholars note that its sentence structure is often clearer and more direct than some modern versions, despite occasional obsolete vocabulary.
King James Version
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MacOS
The current version of Firefox is available for Windows 10 or later versions of Windows, as well as macOS, and Linux.
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Software release life cycle

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Related words

the vertō family

universe version versus

version — used about once every 206 pages · #1,780 · point at the bar for the others

final version

Definitions of version

1nounversionA particular form of something that exists in more than one form.B1~98%

“This is the paperback version.”

2nounaccountOne person's account of an event.B1~2%

“His version of the argument was quite different.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 20 sentences found in the wild and placed 20 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.