A2noun · countable / uncountable · common

fiction

fic·tion

fiction · fictions

художня література, фікція, вигадка, белетристика

художественная литература, вымысел, выдумка, фикция

Erfindung, Fiktion, Belletristik

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

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/ˈfɪkʃən/

» This science-fiction novel is very interesting.

Dieser Science-Fiction-Roman ist sehr interessant.

Dieser Zukunftsroman ist sehr interessant.

Dieser Roman der wissenschaftlichen Fiktion ist sehr interessant.

Этот научно-фантастический роман очень интересный.

Цей фантастичний роман дуже цiкавий.

Meaning

3 senses

(countable, uncountable)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
Fiktion, Belletristik, Erfindung
худо́жественная литерату́раxudóžestvennaja literatúra, беллетри́стикаbelletrístika, фи́кшенfíkšen
худо́жня літерату́раxudóžnja literatúra, белетри́стикаbeletrýstyka, ви́гадкаvýhadka
(countable, uncountable)A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.
The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
(countable, uncountable)A legal fiction.

More definitions

a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
a deliberately false or improbable account

Examples

233 sentences

This science-fiction novel is very interesting.
Цей фантастичний роман дуже цiкавий.
ruЭтот научно-фантастический роман очень интересный.
deDieser Science-Fiction-Roman ist sehr interessant.
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Tom likes science fiction.
Том любить наукову фантастику.
ruТом любит научную фантастику.
deTom mag Science-Fiction.
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Tom loves science fiction.
Том любить наукову фантастику.
ruТом любит научную фантастику.
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I like science fiction better.
Мені більше подобається наукова фантастика.
deIch mag Science-Fiction lieber.
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He really likes science fiction.
Йому дуже подобається наукова фантастика.
ruОн действительно любит научную фантастику.
deEr ist wirklich ein großer Science-fiction-Fan.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 2

literary type:

invention:

Русский

By meaning 2

literary type:

invention:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

literary type:

invention:

Origin

From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”),

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.

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