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English

Pronunciation

  • 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

Singular fiction

Plural fictions

fiction (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) Invention.
    The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

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French

Etymology

From Latin fictionem (nominative of fictio).

Pronunciation

Noun

fiction f. (plural fictions)

  1. fiction

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