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Borrowed 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”).

fiction (countable and uncountable, 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) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).

   The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

3. (law) A legal fiction.

• fabrication
• figment

• documentary
• fact
• non-fiction
• truth

• literary type

• science fiction
• speculative fiction

• fictitious
• fictional
• non-fiction

• fiction section

• “fiction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “fiction”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “fiction”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• "fiction" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 134.

From Old French, borrowed from Latin fictionem (nominative of fictio).

• IPA^(key): /fik.sjɔ̃/

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fiction f (plural fictions)

1. fiction

• fictif
• science-fiction

• “fiction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.