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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”).
fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)
- (literature) 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).
The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
separate the fact from the fiction- 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
[…] 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:
- (law) A legal fiction.
literary type
- Arabic: خَيَال (ar) m (ḵayāl), رِوَايَة (ar) f (riwāya)
- Belarusian: маста́цкая літарату́ра f (mastáckaja litaratúra), бэлетры́стыка f (beljetrýstyka), кра́снае пісьме́нства n (krásnaje pisʹmjénstva)
- Bulgarian: белетри́стика (bg) f (beletrístika), худо́жествена литерату́ра f (hudóžestvena literatúra)
- Catalan: ficció (ca) f
- Cebuano: handurawat
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 虛構文學/虚构文学 (zh) (xūgòu wénxué), (literally, "novels") 小說/小说 (zh) (xiǎoshuō) - Czech: beletrie (cs) f
- Danish: fiktion c, skønlitteratur c
- Dutch: fictie (nl) f
- Esperanto: fikcio (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: skaldskapur
- Finnish: fiktio (fi), kaunokirjallisuus (fi)
- French: fiction (fr) f, belles-lettres (fr) f pl
- Galician: ficción (gl) f
- German: Fiktion (de) f, Belletristik (de) f
- Greek: μυθιστόρημα (el) m (mythistórima)
Ancient: μυθολογία f (muthología) - Hindi: काल्पनिक (hi) (kālpanik)
- Hungarian: szépirodalom (hu)
- Icelandic: skáldskapur m
- Indonesian: fiksi (id)
- Irish: ficsean m (uncountable), finscéal m (countable)
- Italian: finzione (it) f
- Japanese: フィクション (ja) (fikushon), 小説 (ja) (しょうせつ, shōsetsu)
- Javanese: dedongèngan
- Kalmyk: урн зокъял (urn zokʺyal)
- Korean: 소설(小說) (ko) (soseol), 픽션 (piksyeon)
- Latin: res ficta, fabula (la) f, commentum n
- Latvian: daiļliteratūra f, beletristika (lv) f
- Lithuanian: grožinė literatūra f
- Macedonian: белетристика f (beletristika)
- Malay: cereka (ms), cerita rekaan, fiksyen (ms), fiksi
- Maori: pakiwaitara, pakimaero
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: fiksjon m, skjønnlitteratur (no) m
Nynorsk: fiksjon m, skjønnlitteratur m - Occitan: ficcion (oc) f
- Old English: lēasspell n
- Persian: داستانی (fa) (dâstâni)
- Plautdietsch: Romaunschreft f
- Polish: beletrystyka (pl) f
- Portuguese: literatura de ficção f, ficção (pt) f, ficcionismo m
- Romanian: literatură artistică f
- Russian: худо́жественная литерату́ра (ru) f (xudóžestvennaja literatúra), беллетри́стика (ru) f (belletrístika), фи́кшен (ru) m (fíkšen), фикшн (ru) m (fikšn)
- Scottish Gaelic: uirsgeul m, ficsean m
- Slovak: beletria (sk) f
- Spanish: ficción (es) f
- Swahili: bunilizi
- Swedish: fiktion (sv) c, skönlitteratur (sv) c
- Tagalog: kathang-isip, bungang-isip
- Turkish: kurgu (tr)
- Ukrainian: худо́жня літерату́ра f (xudóžnja literatúra), белетри́стика (uk) f (beletrýstyka)
- Welsh: ffuglen (cy) f
invention
Belarusian: вы́мысел m (výmysjel), вы́думка f (výdumka), фі́кцыя f (fíkcyja)
Bulgarian: изми́слица (bg) f (izmíslica)
Icelandic: uppspuni m, skáldskapur m
Macedonian: измислица f (izmislica)
Maori: kōrero takuahi
Middle English: ficcioun
Portuguese: ficção (pt) f, invenção (pt) f, fingimento (pt) m, (colloquial) invencionice f
Russian: вы́мысел (ru) m (výmysel), вы́думка (ru) f (výdumka), фи́кция (ru) f (fíkcija)
Slovak: výmysel m
Tagalog: gawa-gawa
Ukrainian: ви́гадка f (výhadka), фі́кція f (fíkcija), ви́мисел m (výmysel), ви́гад m (výhad)
“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.
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin fictiōnem (accusative of fictiō).
fiction f (plural fictions)
- fictif
- science-fiction
- “fiction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.