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fiction

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Etymology

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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”).

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: fĭk′-shən, IPA(key): /ˈfɪk.ʃən/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: fic‧tion

Noun

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fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)

  1. (literature) 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
  2. 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
    • 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
      […] 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., […] .
  3. (law) A legal fiction.

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Descendants

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  • → Irish: ficsean
  • → Scottish Gaelic: ficsean

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Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin fictiōnem (accusative of fictiō).

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Noun

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fiction f (plural fictions)

  1. fiction
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