fiction

noun

ˈfik-shən How to pronounce fiction (audio)
Definition of fictionnext
as in fantasy
something that is the product of the imagination most stories about famous outlaws of the Old West are fictions that have little or nothing to do with fact

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Recent Examples of fiction David Li, Hesai’s co-founder and CEO, says the narrative that his company poses a threat is fiction. — Melissa Lee,paige Tortorelli,scott Zamost, CNBC, 7 July 2026 By his late thirties, though, Melville’s career as a fiction writer was essentially over. — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026 Safi Faye’s Letter From My Village (1975), the winner of the 2025 Heritage Restoration Contest that blends documentary and fiction, has also been newly restored by Cinegrell, the Locarno Heritage project and its rights holder, Arsenal FilmInstitut. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026 As third-person fiction based on a true story, the Little House series became a children’s classic about family and pioneer life that sold more than 60 million copies. — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for fiction
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiction
  1. fantasy
  2. tale
  3. story
  4. novel
  5. fabrication
  6. fable
  7. invention
  8. figment
Noun
  • Like an author of fantasy fiction, Wolfgang Voigt is continually rewriting and restructuring the internal logic of his own world, going back to his old work in the hopes of imposing some order upon his sprawling mythopoeia.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 7 July 2026
  • Pattison famously played vampire Edward in the teen fantasy saga, who competed with werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) for the affection of Bella (Kristen Stewart).
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026
Definition of fantasy
Noun
  • The agonizing legal circus surrounding Sumner Redstone’s final years at Paramount/Viacom is a sobering cautionary tale.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 July 2026
  • The past few summers have seen nightmare tales from heatwaves in Europe — the continent with the fastest-rising temperatures under global warming.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Definition of tale
Noun
  • Cholowsky visited Chicago for a few days in early June, talking to coaches and executives, hanging out with players and listening to Jerry Reinsdorf’s baseball stories.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • Hawthorne recounted a story about the day he was drafted, when new Steelers teammate Joe Greene came to his family’s door.
    — Jim Barnes July 11, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2026
Definition of story
Noun
  • The Five Star Weekend (Peacock) Jennifer Garner’s new series, The Five Star Weekend, based on the novel by Elin Hilderbrand, is about a woman who invites friends from her past to visit her luxury Nantucket estate for a weekend of girl stuff.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026
  • The novel’s mother has been reared in a South Korean household that places a high value on academic rigor and head-down discipline.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of novel
Noun
  • One cluster of chip fabrication plants in Yongin, just south of Seoul, will cost $390 billion.
    — Kif Leswing,Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 July 2026
  • The company argues that these changes allow higher transistor density and lower power consumption without requiring a new fabrication node.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
Definition of fabrication
Noun
  • Explore the Wild West from the back of a rickety wagon as characters share famed fables about Paul Bunyan, Babe the Blue Ox, Pecos Bill, John Henry and Hekeke.
    — Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
  • My dad’s stories about his grade-school experience felt like dark fables, peppered with slurs hurled at him by classmates.
    — Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
Definition of fable
Noun
  • Born on July 24, 1929, Iwerks grew up in Southern California in a family where imagination and invention were woven into everyday life.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 July 2026
  • Here, perhaps, is a truer explanation for the relentless invention and questing that just happens to result in their ecstatic calibrations of noise.
    — Laura Snapes, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026
Definition of invention
Noun
  • The irony was Morocco played more like the Netherlands lingering in our imagination, now an Oranje figment no longer grounded in reality.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • That wasn’t a figment of the imagination.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2026
Definition of figment

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