fiction
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion, from Latin fictiō, from fingō ("to form, mold, shape, devise, feign").
Pronunciation Nounfiction
- (literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- I am a great reader of fiction.
- the fiction section of the library
- A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
- The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
- The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
- separate the fact from the fiction
- (legal) A legal fiction.
- French: fiction, belles-lettres
- German: Fiktion, Belletristik
- Italian: finzione
- Portuguese: literatura de ficção, ficção, ficcionismo
- Russian: худо́жественная литерату́ра
- Spanish: ficción
- French: fiction
- German: Erfindung
- Portuguese: ficção, invenção, fingimento, (colloquial) invencionice
- Russian: вы́мысел
- Spanish: ficción
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