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Fiction ˈfɪkʃn Crime Writer Noun Work Popular Historical/Romantic/Crime

Word3 fiction
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /ˈfɪkʃn/ /ˈfɪkʃn/
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  • a work of popular fiction
  • historical/romantic/crime fiction
  • to write/read fiction
  • a crime fiction writer
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fiction

(noun)/ˈfɪkʃn/ /ˈfɪkʃn/
  1. a type of literature that describes imaginary people and events, not real ones
    • OPPOSITE non-fiction
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/non-fiction
    • a work of popular fiction
    • historical/romantic/crime fiction
    • to write/read fiction
    • a crime fiction writer

    Extra Examples

    • She has written novels and short fiction.
    • a well-known writer of crime fiction
    • She has written over 20 works of fiction.
  2. a thing that is invented or imagined and is not true
    • Don't believe what she says—it's pure fiction!
    • For years he managed to keep up the fiction that he was not married.

    Extra Examples

    • She still tries to maintain the fiction that she is happily married.
    • Fact and fiction became all jumbled up in his report of the robbery.
  3. used to say that things that actually happen are often more surprising than stories that are invented
  4. Word 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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