fiction meaning
EN[fɪkʃən] [-ɪkʃən]US
WFiction
- Fiction is content, primarily a narrative, that is made from imagination, in addition to, or rather than, from history or fact. Writers sometimes use fictional creatures such as dragons and fairies.
FR fiction
- NounPLfictionsSUF-tion
- 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.
- (uncountable) Invention.
- The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
- Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- These lethetic fictions cut their ties to the real world, refusing to be mirrors of life.
- In science fiction films, suspension of disbelief is essential.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- But Buffy has also generated enormous amounts of slash fiction. The cult television text and the rise of the Internet have both had an important aspect on the development of slash fiction.
- I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction.
- Though originally considered genuine, the diaries are now generally considered a work of fiction.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of fiction in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- Singularia tantum
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- fr fiction
- en fictional
- en fictions
- fr fictions
- en fictionist
Source: Wiktionary