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US
/ˈfɪkʃən/
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[ UK /fˈɪkʃən/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- a deliberately false or improbable account
How To Use fiction In A Sentence
- The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
- Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
- But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.
- Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction. The New Jerusalem
- In the child's imagination, fuelled by science-fiction, the aliens are about to land.
- It was followed by Crime, where plot and suspense were king, and those often sidelined as "genre fiction" — Crichton, King or Rendell — were given credit for their craft.
- On the other hand my books don't lend themselves to movies and they tend to violate basic laws of fiction writing.
- As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
- Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction. Times, Sunday Times
- This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION