fiction

English

Etymology

From Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictionem, accusative of fictio (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingere (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fĭk′-shən, IPA(key): /ˈfɪk.ʃən/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Hyphenation: fic‧tion
  • Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

Noun

fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)

  1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
    The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
    I am a great reader of fiction.
  2. (uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
    The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
  3. (law) A legal fiction.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Waite, Maurice. et al. (eds). Oxford Thesaurus of English. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 328 J. Wiwat (talk) 07:59, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Hypernyms

  • literary type

Hyponyms

Derived terms

  • fiction section

Translations

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Further reading

  • fiction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • fiction in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • fiction at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • "fiction" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 134.

French

Etymology

From Latin fictionem (nominative of fictio).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fik.sjɔ̃/
  • audio(file)

Noun

fiction f (plural fictions)

  1. fiction

Further reading

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