fiction
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- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
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- 7
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Definition of fiction
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)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”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)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”
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(countable, uncountable)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”
“[…] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., […].”
- (countable, uncountable)A legal fiction.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun…
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.
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