fact
/fækt/
fact noun: something actual as opposed to invented.
Noun
fact (countable and uncountable, plural facts)
- Something actual as opposed to invented.
- establish the facts
- hard facts
- Something which is real.
- Gravity is a fact, not a theory.
- Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
- Let's look at the facts of the case before deciding.
- An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
- There is no doubting the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.
- Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
- The facts about space travel.
- Addition facts include 2 + 2 = 4 and 3 + 4 = 7.
- An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
- Action; the realm of action.
- After that Richard, the third of that name, king in fact only, but tyrant both in title and regiment[…]was[…]overthrown and slain at Bosworth Field; there succeeded in the kingdom[…]Henry the Seventh.1622, Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, page 1
- A wrongful or criminal deed.
- He had become an accessory after the fact.
- She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact, / Against that nation [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- A feat or meritorious deed.
- UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms
UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.
And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe,
Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood:
Too harſh a ſubiect for your daintie eares.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC... - When he who most excels in fact of arms,1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms
Interjection
- Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.
Proper noun capitalized: FACT
FACT
- Initialism of Federation Against Copyright Theft.
- Initialism of Federation of American Consumers and Travelers.
fact meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
fact in Hindi
- an honest observation
- तथ्य tathya
- something actual
- तथ्य tathya
- something which has become real
- तथ्य tathya
- something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation
- तथ्य tathya
fact in Marathi
- वस्तुस्थिती
fact in Urdu
- something actual
- حَقِیقَت haqīqat
fact in Bengali
- something actual
- সত্য śotto
More languagesFewer languages
- fact in Telugu
- నిజానికి nijāniki
- fact in Tagalog
- makatotohanang obserbasyon, bagha
- fact in Arabic
- مَعْلُومَة maʕlūma, حَقِيقَة ḥaqīqa, وَاقِعَة wāqiʕa
- fact in Malay
- fakta, kenyataan
- fact in Thai
- ข้อเท็จจริง kɔ̂ɔ-tét-jing
- fact in Vietnamese
- sự thật, sự việc
Examples of fact in a sentence
- In this story, the Gettysburg Address is a fact, but the rest is fiction.
- The report is based on verified facts.
- Let’s stick to the facts, not opinions.
- She presented the facts in a clear, logical way.
- His friends still wrought Repreeves for him: And indeed his fact till now in the government of Lord Angelo, came not to an undoubtfull proofe.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]...
- Gentlemen of the Jury, I think I need say but little on this matter: They all confess the fact of which they stand indicted.1819, T. Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors:
Antonyms of fact
- antonym(s) of
- opinion
Forms of fact
| plural | facts |
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Origin of fact
From Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for “state, condition, circumstance”; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.
Words formed from fact
- accessary after the fact
- accessary before the fact
- accessory after the fact
- accessory before the fact
- after-the-fact
- after the fact
- alternative fact
- alt-fact
- antefact
- anti-fact
- as a matter of fact
- attorney-in-fact
- bad facts make bad law
- before the fact
- brute-fact
- brute fact
- conspiracy fact
- contrary to fact
- counterfact
- face facts
- face the facts
- factbook
- fact check
- fact-check
- fact checker
- fact checking
- fact-checking
- factette
- factfem
- fact file
- factfile
- fact-finder
- factfinder
- fact-finding
- fact free
- fact-free
- factful
- facthood
- factic
- facticide
- facticity
- factify
- faction
- fact is
- factish
- fact is stranger than fiction
- factive
- factless
- factlet
- factness
- fact of life
- fact of the matter
- factography
- factoid
- fact or fiction
- fact-pattern
- fact pattern
- facts don't care about your feelings
- fact sheet
- facts on the ground
Phrases with fact
- in fact
- fact got
- fun fact
- fact files
- fact table
- for a fact
- fact checks
- fact sheets
- fact tables
- French fact
- fact checked
- science fact
25 more phrasesFewer phrases
- fact checkers
- fact patterns
- judge of fact
- material fact
- stylized fact
- the fact that
- trier of fact
- finder of fact
- judges of fact
- malice in fact
- matter of fact
- triers of fact
- finders of fact
- matters of fact
- unstylized fact
- in point of fact
- question of fact
- questions of fact
- accessaries after the fact
- accessories after the fact
- accessaries before the fact
- accessories before the fact
- buy the rumor, sell the fact
- genuine issue of material fact
- genuine issues of material fact
Words that rhyme with fact
Questions about fact
- What does fact mean?
- Fact means something actual as opposed to invented.
- What is fact in Hindi?
- Fact in Hindi is तथ्य (tathya), वास्तव (vāstav), वास्तविक (vāstavik). See Fact meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fact in a sentence?
- In this story, the Gettysburg Address is a fact, but the rest is fiction.
- What part of speech is fact?
- Fact can be a noun, an interjection or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fact?
- Fact is pronounced /fækt/.
- What is the plural of fact?
- The plural of fact is facts.
Words near fact in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fact (page history and authors); FACT (page history and authors); fact (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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