Definition of fiction in English:

fiction

noun ˈfɪkʃ(ə)nˈfɪkʃ(ə)n

1mass noun Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
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Example sentencesExamples
- We are not likely to approach a work of fiction about James as Jamesian scholars.
- It is not only in the landscapes of the mind, of literary fiction, and of oral tradition, that names are narrated and narration creates names.
- Desire, power and a certain cruelty are the central motifs in the erotic fiction of Anais Nin.
- In literary fiction, characters fill and organize the story around them.
- He began his writing career with genre fiction, from historical novels to vampire horror sagas.
- Another area where there has been disquiet about the content of teen fiction is that of novels which engage with the realities of the world we live in today.
- On the one hand it publishes original fiction and prose by authors in Tamil.
- Orwell, Evelyn Waugh and Belloc considered him unequalled as a writer of prose fiction.
- Thus, it is no surprise there are frequent references to Milton in Melville's fiction.
- She began writing successful romantic fiction and historical novels.
- In France Zola was the dominant practitioner of naturalism in prose fiction and the chief exponent of its doctrines.
- Most book sections give spotty coverage to all genres except literary fiction.
- Like all of Roth's fiction, this novel is dazzling but flawed.
- Novels with a multi-cultural edge have become the latest trend in literary fiction.
- You have to understand that it is not a genre like fiction and poetry.
- Do you enjoy watching soap operas on tv, or reading good fiction or romance novels?
- The prize is popularly seen as an award for a new novelists of adult literary fiction, but this is not the case.
- By the early seventeenth century, however, prose fiction had evolved beyond the limits of the novella.
- The motives revealed throughout the novel are more than plot devices and nudge the book over towards the literary end of genre fiction.
- Much of it was so abstract in relation to fiction or poetry as to be nearly meaningless in a literature course.
Synonyms
novels, stories, creative writing, imaginative writing, works of the imagination, prose literature, narration, story telling
romance, fable
2Something that is invented or untrue.
they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married
Example sentencesExamples
- I was to find anew the world of Romance that I had known in earliest childhood in fairy tale and daydream and in the romantic fictions of the household in which I grew up.
- The real world is composed of stories, of fictions, of narrative, and ultimately of language in the same way that the fictional world of a novel is constructed.
- Instead, a hodgepodge of myths and fictions were promulgated to sow illusions among the strikers.
- Veggie Pride should feel ashamed for repeating fictions as if they were true.
- Sometimes misinformation, exaggerated fictions and relics of wartime propaganda are reported in the media.
- But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I thought the readers of e-Poshta should know.
- And the fact that we know the island of St Gregory is a fiction doesn't help make for true grit.
- Now we know the threat was not ‘somehow exaggerated’ but one of Alistair Campbell's more successful fictions.
- It is not a fiction, but a fact, because through faith there is revealed the righteousness of God.
- Some people have interpreted these frightening scenes as exaggerated fictions concocted by the Moche to scare enemies.
- Doubtless that is true, but the threats must be real, not fictions.
- For decades McGarrell has been known for complex paintings that jumble myth, invented fictions and surreal landscapes.
- Their press release, penned by Pyro, is a more entertaining fiction than plenty of novels published this year.
- Such is our hunger for myth that we swallow fictions and reprocess them as truth.
- We become, like Isabella, distorted by the stories we made up, warped by our own fictions.
Synonyms
fabrication, invention, lies, fibs, concoction, untruth, falsehood, fantasy, fancy, illusion, sham, nonsense
vulgar slang bullshit
Australian/New Zealand vulgar slang bulldust
1. 2.1 A belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so.
  虚构的事；谎言
  the notion of the country being a democracy is a polite fiction
  把该国说成是民主国家不过是一个场面上的幌子而已。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Better - and safer - to maintain the polite fiction that he didn't know where she lived.
  One of my favorite concepts in anthropology is that of the polite fiction.
  Pornography, like marriage and the fictions of romantic love, assists the process of false universalising.
  That is his function - to take the polite fictions and drag them back to the real world.
  He thinks he can rebuild the polite fictions of September 10.
  Its language seemed formulaic and false, a screen of clichés and convenient fictions.
  So all of the conventions created in the wake of the Second World War - the Geneva Conventions, the very concept of war crimes - these are all just polite fictions to be crumpled?
  There is no true dramatic debate; the fiction crashes on the rocks of op-ed.
  He'll use me as a reference and they will all think it's true and subscribe to the fiction.
  To give up the fiction is to give up the belief in the sanctity of human life; and this is something that few people are prepared to do.
  Synonyms
  untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, piece of fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story, barefaced lie

Derivatives

fictionist

noun ˈfɪkʃ(ə)nɪstˈfɪkʃ(ə)nəst

Trevor is the best short fictionist in England, and I would make a similar claim for John Updike in this country.
Example sentencesExamples
- He was the editor who discovered or championed many of the world's most important fictionists and poets of the second half of the 20th century.
- The last half-decade has seen Clarence Major receiving attention that his thirty-year career as a fictionist, poet, essayist, anthologist, lexicographer, and painter deserves.
- Playwrights since Pirandello, fictionists since Proust, have been pondering this question, lightly or ponderously.
- Rhymers kicking sordid tales from the drug wars were no longer journalists or fictionists, ironists or moralists.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'invented statement'): via Old French from Latin fictio(n-), from fingere 'form, contrive'. Compare with feign and figment.

faint from Middle English:
The word faint is related to feign, both coming from French faindre and initially used in the original French sense of ‘feigned, simulated’, from Latin fingere ‘to form, contrive’ also the source of fiction (Late Middle English) and figment (Late Middle English). Another early meaning was ‘cowardly’, a sense now preserved only in the proverb faint heart never won fair lady. The sense ‘hardly perceptible’ dates from the mid 17th century. Feint (late 17th century) originally used in fencing for a deceptive blow is from the same source, while the mid 19th-century use of feint for lightly lined paper is simply a respelling of faint.

Rhymes

addiction, affliction, benediction, constriction, conviction, crucifixion, depiction, dereliction, diction, eviction, friction, infliction, interdiction, jurisdiction, malediction, restriction, transfixion, valediction

Definition of fiction in US English:

fiction

nounˈfɪkʃ(ə)nˈfikSH(ə)n

1Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
小说
Example sentencesExamples
- The prize is popularly seen as an award for a new novelists of adult literary fiction, but this is not the case.
- Orwell, Evelyn Waugh and Belloc considered him unequalled as a writer of prose fiction.
- Thus, it is no surprise there are frequent references to Milton in Melville's fiction.
- Novels with a multi-cultural edge have become the latest trend in literary fiction.
- Another area where there has been disquiet about the content of teen fiction is that of novels which engage with the realities of the world we live in today.
- He began his writing career with genre fiction, from historical novels to vampire horror sagas.
- Most book sections give spotty coverage to all genres except literary fiction.
- It is not only in the landscapes of the mind, of literary fiction, and of oral tradition, that names are narrated and narration creates names.
- You have to understand that it is not a genre like fiction and poetry.
- Do you enjoy watching soap operas on tv, or reading good fiction or romance novels?
- In France Zola was the dominant practitioner of naturalism in prose fiction and the chief exponent of its doctrines.
- Like all of Roth's fiction, this novel is dazzling but flawed.
- Desire, power and a certain cruelty are the central motifs in the erotic fiction of Anais Nin.
- On the one hand it publishes original fiction and prose by authors in Tamil.
- By the early seventeenth century, however, prose fiction had evolved beyond the limits of the novella.
- In literary fiction, characters fill and organize the story around them.
- She began writing successful romantic fiction and historical novels.
- Much of it was so abstract in relation to fiction or poetry as to be nearly meaningless in a literature course.
- We are not likely to approach a work of fiction about James as Jamesian scholars.
- The motives revealed throughout the novel are more than plot devices and nudge the book over towards the literary end of genre fiction.
Synonyms
novels, stories, creative writing, imaginative writing, works of the imagination, prose literature, narration, story telling
1. 1.1 Invention or fabrication as opposed to fact.
  虚构，杜撰，编造，捏造
  he dismissed the allegation as absolute fiction
  总裁驳回了指控，称其纯系捏造。
  Example sentencesExamples
  On person tells a story that is important to him or her that can either be fact or fiction.
  We refuse to contemplate that maybe, just maybe their disdain for us is grounded in more fact than fiction.
  The odd jumble of fact and fiction surrounding this initial hit made worldwide headlines.
  The museum always foregrounds the unresolvable dichotomy between fact and fiction.
  Listen to some fish stories but try to distinguish between fact and fiction.
  This is the ability to separate fact from fiction, truth from lies, and stated agendas from hidden ones.
  Has anyone seen him write stories about all the fiction in the campaign?
  It may well turn out that all of Parmalat's financials are true fiction - more a case of Parma sham than Parma ham.
  The winner is the person who best conflates fiction and fact in the audience's mind.
  Whether it's fact, twisted fact, or blatant fiction, people will believe what they see on TV.
  Here Brody does an excellent job of sorting out fact, fiction, and political agendas.
  The film is careful not to leave the audience in any doubt about the fiction of the story.
  It will be folly to be swayed by mealie-mouthed politicians who cannot differentiate fact from fiction.
  We'll separate fact from film fiction about one of history's greatest warriors.
  Please be careful with your mix of fact and fiction as you try to gain the sympathies of your readership.
  At a theological level, there is concern at the liberal blurring of the lines between historical fact and fiction.
  Bobby's reputation is a curious mixture of fact and fiction.
  Let's consider some of the common claims, and try to sort out the fact from the fiction.
  Dr Kellett separated the fact from the fiction of the prophetess legend in a previous book published last year.
  The fact is at times it's difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction, myth or reality.
  Synonyms
  fabrication, invention, lies, fibs, concoction, trumped-up story, fake news, alternative fact, untruth, falsehood, fantasy, fancy, illusion, sham, nonsense
2. 1.2in singular A belief or statement that is false, but that is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so.
  虚构的事；谎言
  the notion of that country being a democracy is a polite fiction
  把该国说成是民主国家不过是一个场面上的幌子而已。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is no true dramatic debate; the fiction crashes on the rocks of op-ed.
  To give up the fiction is to give up the belief in the sanctity of human life; and this is something that few people are prepared to do.
  Its language seemed formulaic and false, a screen of clichés and convenient fictions.
  Pornography, like marriage and the fictions of romantic love, assists the process of false universalising.
  One of my favorite concepts in anthropology is that of the polite fiction.
  He thinks he can rebuild the polite fictions of September 10.
  That is his function - to take the polite fictions and drag them back to the real world.
  So all of the conventions created in the wake of the Second World War - the Geneva Conventions, the very concept of war crimes - these are all just polite fictions to be crumpled?
  He'll use me as a reference and they will all think it's true and subscribe to the fiction.
  Better - and safer - to maintain the polite fiction that he didn't know where she lived.
  Synonyms
  untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, piece of fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story, barefaced lie

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘invented statement’): via Old French from Latin fictio(n-), from fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and figment.

单词	fiction
释义	Definition of fiction in English: fiction noun ˈfɪkʃ(ə)nˈfɪkʃ(ə)n 1mass noun Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people. 小说 Example sentencesExamples We are not likely to approach a work of fiction about James as Jamesian scholars. It is not only in the landscapes of the mind, of literary fiction, and of oral tradition, that names are narrated and narration creates names. Desire, power and a certain cruelty are the central motifs in the erotic fiction of Anais Nin. In literary fiction, characters fill and organize the story around them. He began his writing career with genre fiction, from historical novels to vampire horror sagas. Another area where there has been disquiet about the content of teen fiction is that of novels which engage with the realities of the world we live in today. On the one hand it publishes original fiction and prose by authors in Tamil. Orwell, Evelyn Waugh and Belloc considered him unequalled as a writer of prose fiction. Thus, it is no surprise there are frequent references to Milton in Melville's fiction. She began writing successful romantic fiction and historical novels. In France Zola was the dominant practitioner of naturalism in prose fiction and the chief exponent of its doctrines. Most book sections give spotty coverage to all genres except literary fiction. Like all of Roth's fiction, this novel is dazzling but flawed. Novels with a multi-cultural edge have become the latest trend in literary fiction. You have to understand that it is not a genre like fiction and poetry. Do you enjoy watching soap operas on tv, or reading good fiction or romance novels? The prize is popularly seen as an award for a new novelists of adult literary fiction, but this is not the case. By the early seventeenth century, however, prose fiction had evolved beyond the limits of the novella. The motives revealed throughout the novel are more than plot devices and nudge the book over towards the literary end of genre fiction. Much of it was so abstract in relation to fiction or poetry as to be nearly meaningless in a literature course. Synonyms novels, stories, creative writing, imaginative writing, works of the imagination, prose literature, narration, story telling romance, fable 2Something that is invented or untrue. they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married Example sentencesExamples I was to find anew the world of Romance that I had known in earliest childhood in fairy tale and daydream and in the romantic fictions of the household in which I grew up. The real world is composed of stories, of fictions, of narrative, and ultimately of language in the same way that the fictional world of a novel is constructed. Instead, a hodgepodge of myths and fictions were promulgated to sow illusions among the strikers. Veggie Pride should feel ashamed for repeating fictions as if they were true. Sometimes misinformation, exaggerated fictions and relics of wartime propaganda are reported in the media. But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I thought the readers of e-Poshta should know. And the fact that we know the island of St Gregory is a fiction doesn't help make for true grit. Now we know the threat was not ‘somehow exaggerated’ but one of Alistair Campbell's more successful fictions. It is not a fiction, but a fact, because through faith there is revealed the righteousness of God. Some people have interpreted these frightening scenes as exaggerated fictions concocted by the Moche to scare enemies. Doubtless that is true, but the threats must be real, not fictions. For decades McGarrell has been known for complex paintings that jumble myth, invented fictions and surreal landscapes. Their press release, penned by Pyro, is a more entertaining fiction than plenty of novels published this year. Such is our hunger for myth that we swallow fictions and reprocess them as truth. We become, like Isabella, distorted by the stories we made up, warped by our own fictions. Synonyms fabrication, invention, lies, fibs, concoction, untruth, falsehood, fantasy, fancy, illusion, sham, nonsense vulgar slang bullshit Australian/New Zealand vulgar slang bulldust 2.1 A belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so. 虚构的事；谎言 the notion of the country being a democracy is a polite fiction 把该国说成是民主国家不过是一个场面上的幌子而已。 Example sentencesExamples Better - and safer - to maintain the polite fiction that he didn't know where she lived. One of my favorite concepts in anthropology is that of the polite fiction. Pornography, like marriage and the fictions of romantic love, assists the process of false universalising. That is his function - to take the polite fictions and drag them back to the real world. He thinks he can rebuild the polite fictions of September 10. Its language seemed formulaic and false, a screen of clichés and convenient fictions. So all of the conventions created in the wake of the Second World War - the Geneva Conventions, the very concept of war crimes - these are all just polite fictions to be crumpled? There is no true dramatic debate; the fiction crashes on the rocks of op-ed. He'll use me as a reference and they will all think it's true and subscribe to the fiction. To give up the fiction is to give up the belief in the sanctity of human life; and this is something that few people are prepared to do. Synonyms untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, piece of fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story, barefaced lie Derivatives fictionist noun ˈfɪkʃ(ə)nɪstˈfɪkʃ(ə)nəst Trevor is the best short fictionist in England, and I would make a similar claim for John Updike in this country. Example sentencesExamples He was the editor who discovered or championed many of the world's most important fictionists and poets of the second half of the 20th century. The last half-decade has seen Clarence Major receiving attention that his thirty-year career as a fictionist, poet, essayist, anthologist, lexicographer, and painter deserves. Playwrights since Pirandello, fictionists since Proust, have been pondering this question, lightly or ponderously. Rhymers kicking sordid tales from the drug wars were no longer journalists or fictionists, ironists or moralists. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'invented statement'): via Old French from Latin fictio(n-), from fingere 'form, contrive'. Compare with feign and figment. faint from Middle English: The word faint is related to feign, both coming from French faindre and initially used in the original French sense of ‘feigned, simulated’, from Latin fingere ‘to form, contrive’ also the source of fiction (Late Middle English) and figment (Late Middle English). Another early meaning was ‘cowardly’, a sense now preserved only in the proverb faint heart never won fair lady. The sense ‘hardly perceptible’ dates from the mid 17th century. Feint (late 17th century) originally used in fencing for a deceptive blow is from the same source, while the mid 19th-century use of feint for lightly lined paper is simply a respelling of faint. Rhymes addiction, affliction, benediction, constriction, conviction, crucifixion, depiction, dereliction, diction, eviction, friction, infliction, interdiction, jurisdiction, malediction, restriction, transfixion, valediction Definition of fiction in US English: fiction nounˈfɪkʃ(ə)nˈfikSH(ə)n 1Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people. 小说 Example sentencesExamples The prize is popularly seen as an award for a new novelists of adult literary fiction, but this is not the case. Orwell, Evelyn Waugh and Belloc considered him unequalled as a writer of prose fiction. Thus, it is no surprise there are frequent references to Milton in Melville's fiction. Novels with a multi-cultural edge have become the latest trend in literary fiction. Another area where there has been disquiet about the content of teen fiction is that of novels which engage with the realities of the world we live in today. He began his writing career with genre fiction, from historical novels to vampire horror sagas. Most book sections give spotty coverage to all genres except literary fiction. It is not only in the landscapes of the mind, of literary fiction, and of oral tradition, that names are narrated and narration creates names. You have to understand that it is not a genre like fiction and poetry. Do you enjoy watching soap operas on tv, or reading good fiction or romance novels? In France Zola was the dominant practitioner of naturalism in prose fiction and the chief exponent of its doctrines. Like all of Roth's fiction, this novel is dazzling but flawed. Desire, power and a certain cruelty are the central motifs in the erotic fiction of Anais Nin. On the one hand it publishes original fiction and prose by authors in Tamil. By the early seventeenth century, however, prose fiction had evolved beyond the limits of the novella. In literary fiction, characters fill and organize the story around them. She began writing successful romantic fiction and historical novels. Much of it was so abstract in relation to fiction or poetry as to be nearly meaningless in a literature course. We are not likely to approach a work of fiction about James as Jamesian scholars. The motives revealed throughout the novel are more than plot devices and nudge the book over towards the literary end of genre fiction. Synonyms novels, stories, creative writing, imaginative writing, works of the imagination, prose literature, narration, story telling 1.1 Invention or fabrication as opposed to fact. 虚构，杜撰，编造，捏造 he dismissed the allegation as absolute fiction 总裁驳回了指控，称其纯系捏造。 Example sentencesExamples On person tells a story that is important to him or her that can either be fact or fiction. We refuse to contemplate that maybe, just maybe their disdain for us is grounded in more fact than fiction. The odd jumble of fact and fiction surrounding this initial hit made worldwide headlines. The museum always foregrounds the unresolvable dichotomy between fact and fiction. Listen to some fish stories but try to distinguish between fact and fiction. This is the ability to separate fact from fiction, truth from lies, and stated agendas from hidden ones. Has anyone seen him write stories about all the fiction in the campaign? It may well turn out that all of Parmalat's financials are true fiction - more a case of Parma sham than Parma ham. The winner is the person who best conflates fiction and fact in the audience's mind. Whether it's fact, twisted fact, or blatant fiction, people will believe what they see on TV. Here Brody does an excellent job of sorting out fact, fiction, and political agendas. The film is careful not to leave the audience in any doubt about the fiction of the story. It will be folly to be swayed by mealie-mouthed politicians who cannot differentiate fact from fiction. We'll separate fact from film fiction about one of history's greatest warriors. Please be careful with your mix of fact and fiction as you try to gain the sympathies of your readership. At a theological level, there is concern at the liberal blurring of the lines between historical fact and fiction. Bobby's reputation is a curious mixture of fact and fiction. Let's consider some of the common claims, and try to sort out the fact from the fiction. Dr Kellett separated the fact from the fiction of the prophetess legend in a previous book published last year. The fact is at times it's difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction, myth or reality. Synonyms fabrication, invention, lies, fibs, concoction, trumped-up story, fake news, alternative fact, untruth, falsehood, fantasy, fancy, illusion, sham, nonsense 1.2in singular A belief or statement that is false, but that is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so. 虚构的事；谎言 the notion of that country being a democracy is a polite fiction 把该国说成是民主国家不过是一个场面上的幌子而已。 Example sentencesExamples There is no true dramatic debate; the fiction crashes on the rocks of op-ed. To give up the fiction is to give up the belief in the sanctity of human life; and this is something that few people are prepared to do. Its language seemed formulaic and false, a screen of clichés and convenient fictions. Pornography, like marriage and the fictions of romantic love, assists the process of false universalising. One of my favorite concepts in anthropology is that of the polite fiction. He thinks he can rebuild the polite fictions of September 10. That is his function - to take the polite fictions and drag them back to the real world. So all of the conventions created in the wake of the Second World War - the Geneva Conventions, the very concept of war crimes - these are all just polite fictions to be crumpled? He'll use me as a reference and they will all think it's true and subscribe to the fiction. Better - and safer - to maintain the polite fiction that he didn't know where she lived. Synonyms untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, piece of fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story, barefaced lie Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘invented statement’): via Old French from Latin fictio(n-), from fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and figment.
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