fiction

US: /ˈfɪkʃən/
UK: /fˈɪkʃən/


English Vietnamese dictionary


fiction /'fikʃn/
  • danh từ
    • điều hư cấu, điều tưởng tượng
    • tiểu thuyết
      • work of fiction: tiểu thuyết

Advanced English dictionary


+ noun
1 [U] a type of literature that describes imaginary people and events, not real ones: a work of popular fiction + historical / romantic fiction
Antonym: NON-FICTION
See also - SCIENCE FICTION
2 [C] a thing that is invented or imagined and is not true: For years he managed to keep up the fiction that he was not married.
Idioms see TRUTH

Collocation dictionary


1 stories that are not true

ADJ.

contemporary, modern | classic | light, popular, pulp | literary, serious | crime, detective, historical, romantic, science

VERB + FICTION

publish, write | read

PHRASES

a work of fiction
He has written over 20 works of fiction.
| a writer of fiction
a well-known writer of crime fiction

2 sth that is not true

ADJ.

pure
Don't believe what she says?it's pure fiction!

VERB + FICTION

keep up, maintain
She still tries to maintain the fiction that she is happily married.

PHRASES

fact and fiction
Fact and fiction became all jumbled up in his report of the robbery.


Concise English dictionary


fictions'fɪkʃn
noun
+a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
+a deliberately false or improbable account