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Original vs Reprint - What's the difference?

original | reprint |

As nouns the difference between original and reprint

is that original is original while reprint is a book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again.

As a verb reprint is

to print (something) that has been published in print before.

original

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • (label) Newly created.
  • (label) Fresh, different.
  • (label) Pioneering.
  • (label) Having as its origin.

    • Synonyms

    * (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * derivative * reproduction * simile

    Derived terms

    * originally * original sin

    Related terms

    * origin * originality * originate * originative * aboriginal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
    • This manuscript is the original
  • A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
    • You’re an original
  • (archaic) An eccentric

    • Synonyms

    * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * remake * reproduction

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    reprint

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again.
    • The reprint is much less expensive than a first edition.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To print (something) that has been published in print before.
  • To renew the impression of.
  • * South
    • The whole business of our redemption is to reprint God's image upon the soul.

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