version

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Ver=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

version, n. [F., from L. vertere, versum, to turn, to change, to translate. See Verse.].

•  A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.  [1913 Webster]

  "The version of air into water."  [1913 Webster]
•  A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.  [1913 Webster]
•  A translation; that which is rendered from another language; as, the Common, or Authorized, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament.  [1913 Webster]
•  An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

version, n.
1 an account of a matter from a particular person's point of view (told them my version of the incident).
2 a book or work etc. in a particular edition or translation (Authorized Version).
3 a form or variant of a thing as performed, adapted, etc.
4 a piece of translation, esp. as a school exercise.
5 Med. the manual turning of a foetus in the womb to improve presentation.

Derivative

versional adj.

Etymology

F version or med.L versio f. L vertere vers- turn

THESAURUS

version

account, adaptation, affiliation, arrangement, article, autograph, body, brainchild, branch, burlesque, chronicle, church, clarification, communion, community, composite reading, composition, computer printout, conception, condensation, conflation, construct, construction, copy, critical edition, denomination, diplomatic text, division, document, draft, dummy, duplication, edited text, edited version, edition, engrossment, essay, facsimile, faction, fair copy, fellowship, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, form, group, history, holograph, hymnal, hymnbook, idea, imitation, instrumental score, interpretation, kind, knockoff, lection, letter, libretto, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, lute tablature, manifestation, manuscript, matter, mock-up, model, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, narrative, nonfiction, normalized text, notation, offshoot, opera, opera score, opus, orchestral score, order, organization, original, paper, paraphrase, parchment, parody, part, party, penscript, persuasion, piano score, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, portrayal, printed matter, printout, production, reading, reading matter, recension, religious order, rendering, rendition, replica, report, representation, reproduction, restatement, rewording, schism, scholarly edition, school, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, sect, sectarism, segment, sheet music, short score, side, simplification, society, songbook, songster, story, style, tablature, tale, text, the written word, transcript, transcription, translation, travesty, type, typescript, understanding, variant, variation, variety, view, vocal score, work, writing, written music

ROGET THESAURUS

version

Speciality

N speciality, specialite, individuality, individuity, particularity, peculiarity, idiocrasy, personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy, specificness, singularity, reading, version, lection, state, trait, distinctive feature, technicality, differentia, particulars, details, items, counts, minutiae, I, self, I myself, myself, himself, herself, itself, special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive, singular, idiomatic, idiotypical, typical, this, that, yon, yonder, specially, especially, particularly, in particular, in propria persona, ad hominem, for my part, each, apiece, one by one, one at a time, severally, respectively, each to each, seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail, bit by bit, pro hac vice, pro re nata, namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia, e, g, i, e, videlicet, viz, to wit, le style est l'homme meme.

Interpretation

N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.