fiction
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- (countable, uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
- (countable, uncountable) A legal fiction.
Synonyms
made-up story
cheap literature
writing for amusement
fiction factuality type
belletristic fiction
belles-lettres
Translations
fiction
ficción
Fiktion
ficção
ficció
finzione
fictieFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfɪk.ʃən/
Etymology
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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