Princeton's WordNet(4.14 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fiction(noun)

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

2. fabrication, fiction, fable(noun)

   a deliberately false or improbable account

Wiktionary(3.50 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fiction(Noun)

   Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

2. fiction(Noun)

   Invention.

   The butleru2019s account of the crime was pure fiction.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fiction(noun)

   the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind

2. Fiction(noun)

   that which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality

3. Fiction(noun)

   fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances

4. Fiction(noun)

   an assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth

5. Fiction(noun)

   any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fiction

   Fiction is the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical, cinematic, or musical work. Fiction contrasts with non-fiction, which deals exclusively with factual events, descriptions, observations, etc..

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Fiction

   fik′shun, n. a feigned or false story: a falsehood: romance: the novel, story-telling as a branch of literature: a supposition of law that a thing is true, which is either certainly not true, or at least is as probably false as true.—adj. Fic′tional.—n. Fic′tionist, a writer of fiction.—adj. Ficti′tious, imaginary: not real: forged.—adv. Ficti′tiously.—adj. Fic′tive, fictitious, imaginative.—n. Fic′tor, one who makes images of clay, &c. [Fr.,—L. fiction-em—fictus, pa.p. of fingĕre.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. FICTION

   The Constitutional fiat that "all men are created equal."

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fiction' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4544

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fiction' in Nouns Frequency: #1778

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fiction in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fiction in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Irving Cohen:

   Truth is shorter than fiction.

2. Anonymous:

   Victory is a political fiction.

3. Andy Goldberg:

   It's science fiction meets real science.

4. Mark Twain:

   Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

5. G. K. Chesterton:

   Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

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