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English
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- Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Etymology
From Latin fictionem, accusative of fictio (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”) < fingere (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”).
Noun
fiction (plural fictions)
- 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.
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- non-fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction section
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External links
- 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
French
Etymology
From Latin fictionem (nominative of fictio).
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fiction f. (plural fictions)
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