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fiction

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"Invented literature"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɪkʃən/Part of speech nounSorted cfiinotStarts with FEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

Word origin

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”); see feign, feint, figment.

Used in a sentence

  • I am a great reader of fiction.
  • the fiction section of the library
  • The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.

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