fiction

Bedeutung

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

Mit Bindestrich als

fic‧tion

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈfɪk.ʃən/

Etymologie

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”).