Word.ws English Dictionary

nonfiction

nonfiction noun: written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

Noun

nonfiction (countable and uncountable, plural nonfictions)

  1. Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.
    • Encyclopedias, how-to manuals and biographies are all considered nonfiction and so are kept in the nonfiction section.
    • A sudoku book sits atop the Nielsen BookScan nonfiction best-seller list.2005 May 23, Eric Pfanner, “Puzzling phenomenon sweeps British papers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2021

nonfiction meaning in Persian, Thai and Vietnamese

nonfiction in Persian

written works intended to give facts
غیرداستان ġeyr-e-dâstân

nonfiction in Thai

written works intended to give facts
สารคดี sǎa-rá-ká-dii

nonfiction in Vietnamese

written works intended to give facts
phi hư cấu, không hư cấu

Examples of nonfiction in a sentence

  • He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
  • How can English teachers harness the power of nonfiction to inspire girls to be STEMinists?
  • Like other forms of creative nonfiction, the dogoir frequently straddles various categories.

All 16 example sentences with nonfiction

Forms of nonfiction

pluralnonfictions
alternative formnon-fiction

Origin of nonfiction

From non- + fiction.

Words formed from nonfiction

Phrases with nonfiction

Questions about nonfiction

What does nonfiction mean?
Nonfiction means written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.
What is nonfiction in Persian?
Nonfiction in Persian is غیرداستان (ġeyr-e-dâstân). See Nonfiction meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is nonfiction?
Nonfiction is a noun.
What is the plural of nonfiction?
The plural of nonfiction is nonfictions.

Words near nonfiction in the dictionary

  1. nonfibroblastic
  2. nonfibroblasts
  3. nonfibrolamellar
  4. nonfibrotic
  5. nonfibrous
  6. nonfiction
  7. nonfiction novel
  8. nonfiction novels
  9. nonfictional
  10. nonfictionalized
  11. nonfictionally

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nonfiction (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nonfiction.wav.

Cite this entry: “nonfiction.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nonfiction. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.