Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - fiction
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(fictions) 1. Fiction refers to books and stories about imaginary people and events, rather than books about real people or events. Immigrant tales have always been popular themes in fiction... Diana is a writer of historical fiction. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl see also science fiction 2. A statement or account that is fiction is not true. The truth or fiction of this story has never been truly determined. ? truth, fact N-UNCOUNT 3. If something is a fiction, it is not true, although people sometimes pretend that it is true. The idea that the United States could harmoniously accommodate all was a fiction. ? fact N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle English ficcioun, from Middle French ~, from Latin ~-, fictio act of fashioning, ~, from fingere to shape, fashion, feign — more at dough Date: 14th century 1. a. something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically an invented story b. fictitious literature (as novels or short stories) c. a work of ~; especially novel 2. a. an assumption of a possibility as a fact irrespective of the question of its truth a legal ~ b. a useful illusion or pretense 3. the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination • ~al adjective • ~ality noun • ~ally adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 an invented idea or statement or narrative; an imaginary thing. 2 literature, esp. novels, describing imaginary events and people. 3 a conventionally accepted falsehood (legal fiction; polite fiction). 4 the act or process of inventing imaginary things. Derivatives fictional adj. fictionality n. fictionalize v.tr. (also -ise). fictionalization n. fictionally adv. fictionist n. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L fictio -onis (as FICTILE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. беллетристика, художественная литература, художественная проза works of fiction —- романы, повести light fiction —- легкое чтение writer of fiction —- писатель; прозаик; беллетрист he prefers history to fiction —- он предпочитает историю беллетристике 2. художественное произведение (роман, рассказ и т. п.) 3. вымысел, выдумка; фикция her account was complete fiction —- сказанное ею было выдумано с начала до конца to distinguish fact from fiction —- отличить реальное от вымысла fact is stranger than fiction —- действительность бывает более удивительной, чем вымысел 4. юр. фикция legal fiction, fiction of law —- юридическая фикция ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) вымысел, выдумка, фикция 2) беллетристика; художественная литература - works of fiction 3) leg. фикция - legal fiction Syn: see novel ...Англо-русский словарь
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- c.1412, from L. fictionem (nom. fictio) "a fashioning or feigning," from fingere "to shape, form, devise, feign." Fictitious is 1615, from M.L. fictitus, a misspelling of L. ficticius "artificial, counterfeit," from fictus, pp. of fingere. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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