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English
Etymology
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 ” ) .
Pronunciation
enPR : fĭk′-shən , IPA (key ) : /ˈfɪk.ʃən/
Hyphenation: fic‧tion
Noun
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., [ …] .
( law ) A legal fiction .
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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
Azerbaijani: uydurma (az) , qondarma (az)
Belarusian: вы́мысел m ( výmysjel ) , вы́думка f ( výdumka ) , фі́кцыя f ( fíkcyja )
Bulgarian: изми́слица (bg) f ( izmíslica )
Catalan: ficció (ca) f
Czech: fikce (cs) f , výmysl m
Danish: fantasi c , opspind
Dutch: fictie (nl) f
Finnish: sepite (fi) , fiktio (fi) , taru (fi)
French: fiction (fr) f
German: Erfindung (de) f
Icelandic: uppspuni m , skáldskapur m
Macedonian: измислица f ( izmislica )
Maori: kōrero takuahi
Middle English: ficcioun
Occitan: ficcion (oc) f
Polish: fikcja (pl) f
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
Spanish: ficción (es) f
Tagalog: gawa-gawa
Turkish: kurgu (tr)
Ukrainian: ви́гадка f ( výhadka ) , фі́кція f ( fíkcija ) , ви́мисел m ( výmysel ) , ви́гад m ( výhad )
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Further reading
“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.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French , borrowed from Latin fictiōnem (accusative of fictiō ).
Pronunciation
Noun
fiction f (plural fictions )
fiction
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