fiction

Significat (Anglès)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
  3. (countable, uncountable) A legal fiction.

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C1
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈfɪk.ʃən/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

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”).

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