fiction
Syllables: fic·tion/ˈfɪkʃən/
fiction noun: literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
Noun
fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)
- 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
- A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.
- The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
- The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
- A legal fiction.
fiction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
fiction in Hindi
- literary type
- काल्पनिक kālpanik
fiction in Tamil
- கட்டுக்கதை, புதினம், புனைவு, புனைகதை
fiction in Urdu
- افسانہ, جھوٹ, خرافت, کذب
fiction in Bengali
- উপন্যাস, গল্প, মিথ্যা গল্প, অলীক কাহিনী, বানান গল্প, অলীক বস্তু
More languagesFewer languages
- fiction in Telugu
- కట్టుకథ kaṭṭukatha
- fiction in Malayalam
- കെട്ടുകഥ, ആഖ്യായിക, കല്പനാസൃഷ്ടി, നോവൽ
- fiction in Kannada
- ಕಟ್ಟುಕತೆ, ಸುಳ್ಳು ಹೇಳಿಕೆ
- fiction in Punjabi
- ਗਲਪ, ਗਲਪ-ਕਥਾ
- fiction in Nepali
- कल्पकाहिनी
- fiction in Tagalog
- kathang-isip, bungang-isip, gawa-gawa
- fiction in Arabic
- خَيَال ḵayāl, رِوَايَة riwāya
- fiction in Malay
- cereka, cerita rekaan, fiksyen, fiksi
- fiction in Indonesian
- fiksi
- fiction in Persian
- داستانی dâstâni
Examples of fiction in a sentence
- separate the fact from the fiction
- […] 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., […].1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
- The transitory objects of sense, and most romantic fictions of imagination, have more of their hearts, and more of their credit, than all the hopes and fears the Bible contains, or futurity suggests!1801, Rev. John Moir, The Gospel of Jesus the Philosophy of Life. With an Appendix and Index, page 241:
Synonyms of fiction
Antonyms
Forms of fiction
| plural | fictions |
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Origin of fiction
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”); see feign, feint, figment.
Words formed from fiction
- airport fiction
- autobiografiction
- autofiction
- chat fiction
- cli-fi
- cyberfiction
- design fiction
- docufiction
- eco-fiction
- ecofiction
- encyclopedic fiction
- explanatory fiction
- faan fiction
- faction
- fact is stranger than fiction
- fan fiction
- fan-fiction
- fictional
- fictionary
- fictioneer
- fictionise
- fictionish
- fictionist
- fictionization
- fictionize
- fictionkin
- fictionmaking
- fictionmonger
- fictiony
- fictious
- fictitious
- fictomercial
- flash fiction
- genre fiction
- geofiction
- gothic fiction
- hard science fiction
- historical fiction
- hyperfiction
- imaginative fiction
- interactive fiction
- literary fiction
- macro-fiction
- manfiction
- message fiction
- metafiction
- micro-fiction
- microfiction
- non-fiction
- nonfiction
- non-mimetic fiction
- paradox of fiction
- petrofiction
- pious fiction
- polite fiction
- proto-science fiction
- pseudofiction
- pulp fiction
- real person fiction
- scientifiction
Phrases with fiction
- legal fiction
- slash fiction
- weird fiction
- sudden fiction
- science fiction
- work of fiction
- works of fiction
- real-person fiction
- speculative fiction
- paradoxes of fiction
- soft science fiction
- military science fiction
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Words that rhyme with fiction
- friction
- astriction
- jurisdiction
- addiction
- benediction
- contradiction
- conviction
- depiction
- valediction
- constriction
- dereliction
- fan fiction
30 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- indiction
- restriction
- affliction
- diction
- emiction
- eviction
- faan fiction
- infriction
- malediction
- prediction
- science fiction
- striction
- abstriction
- affixion
- condiction
- confliction
- effiction
- infixion
- miction
- pilimiction
- postdiction
- preconstriction
- prefixion
- reliction
- renoviction
- retrodiction
- scientifiction
- stiction
- suffixion
- transfixion
Questions about fiction
- What does fiction mean?
- Fiction means literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- What is fiction in Hindi?
- Fiction in Hindi is काल्पनिक (kālpanik). See Fiction meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fiction in a sentence?
- separate the fact from the fiction
- What part of speech is fiction?
- Fiction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fiction?
- Fiction is pronounced /ˈfɪkʃən/.
- What is the plural of fiction?
- The plural of fiction is fictions.
Words near fiction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fiction (page history and authors); fiction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiction (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiction (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కట్టుకథ (Telugu) (page history and authors); fiction (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiction (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fiction (Nepali, 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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