• Fiction

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

    Origin

    From Old French ficcion ("dissimulation, ruse, invention"), from Latin fictionem, accusative of fictio ("a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction"), from fingere ("to form, mold, shape, devise, feign").

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    Noun

    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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