Version Meaning
/ˈvɜːʒn̩/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA specific form or variation of something.
nounA translation from one language to another.
Sentence Examples
You must request the latest version of the software.
We will replace the current version with the upgrade.
The latest version of the software package
CEFR Practice Quiz
The new ____ of the app has more features than the old one.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I need to download the latest ____ of the app to ensure that I have all the several latest security features today.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“to turn”). Used in English since 16th century.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’"
— 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
"An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes."
— 2013 March 26, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114:
"The version of air into water."
— 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
"Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica)[…]"
— 2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The new ____ of the app has more features than the old one.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I need to download the latest ____ of the app to ensure that I have all the several latest security features today.