Fiction definitions

Search

Fiction

Fiction logo #10101) American literary magazine 2) Field of Willa Cather 3) French word used in English 4) Imaginary event 5) Imagined story 6) Invented story 7) Literary composition 8) Literary genre 9) Literary work 10) Literature genre 11) Non-factual literature 12) Novel inventions 13) Novel makeup 14) Novels
Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/fiction

Fiction

Fiction logo #10101) Canard 2) Fable 3) Fabrication 4) Fib 5) Lie 6) Myth 7) Novels 8) Stories 9) Story
Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/fiction

Fiction

Fiction logo #21000 Fiction is the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not real, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author. Although the term fiction refers in particular to novels and short stories, it may also refer to the theatre, including opera and ballet, film, television, poetry an...
Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiction

Fiction

Fiction logo #21000[magazine] Fiction is a literary magazine founded in 1972 by Mark Jay Mirsky, Donald Barthelme, and Max Frisch. It is published by the City College of New York. This is not the same as the French magazine Fiction, published from 1953-1990. In its early years, Fiction was published in tabloid format and featured experimental work by such wri...
Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiction_(magazine)

Fiction

Fiction logo #21002• (n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances. • (n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. • (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the m...
Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/fiction/

fiction

fiction logo #21003literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the ... [2 related articles]
Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/22

fiction

fiction logo #20688In literature, any work in which the content is completely or largely invented. The term describes imaginative works of narrative prose (such as the novel or the short story), and is distinguished...
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

fiction

fiction logo #209731. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. ... 2. 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. 'The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon.' (Sir W....
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973

Fiction

Fiction logo #20972Fic'tion noun [ French fiction , Latin fictio , from fingere , fictum to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign .] 1. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. That which is...
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/25

fiction

fiction logo #21063Anything that has nothing to do with reality; based on the imagination of an author / authoress. Contrast: non-fiction
Found on http://www.menrath-online.de/glossaryengl.html

fiction

fiction logo #20400[n] - a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=fiction

fiction

fiction logo #21009fiction Etymology: 'something invented', from Latin fictionem (nominative case, fictio), 'a fashioning' or 'feigning'; from fingere, 'to shape, to form, to devise, to feign', originally 'to knead, to form out of clay'.
Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/4049/

Fiction

Fiction logo #20815 text which is invented by a writer or speaker. Characters, settings and events are created by the originator. In some cases, one of these elements may be factual: for example, the setting may be a named city or area; the text may be based on an historical event.
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20815

fiction

fiction logo #20974 noun a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

Fiction

Fiction logo #21203Whenever a symbol, as part of an utterance, occurs in such a context that the truth of any utterance of the same form would normally guarantee the existence of an individual denoted by that symbol, whereas in the case considered no such implication holds, the symbol may be said to occur fictitiously in that context. Thus in the utterance 'The aver....
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21203

fiction

fiction logo #21221In literature, any work in which the content is completely or largely invented. The term describes imaginative works of narrative prose (such as the novel or the short story), and is distinguished from non-fiction writing (such as history, biography, or works on practical subjects) and from poetry. Fiction need not be only prose literature;...
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221

fiction

fiction logo #22350something invented; a literary work whose content is based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact. Fictional stories are ones with imaginary stories and characters.
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22350

fiction

fiction logo #21199the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form. · works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction. · something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story: We've all heard the fiction of her being in delicate health. · the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining. ...
Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/fiction

Fiction

Fiction logo #23752a story about people and events that are not real; literature that tells a story that has been imagined by the writer.
Found on https://www.scribendi.com/academy/articles/fiction_writing_glossary.en.html

fiction

fiction logo #23665 a literary work based on the imagination
Found on https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/310894

fiction

fiction logo #23665[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] a literary work based on the imagination
Found on https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/418206
No exact match found.