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
+ noun1 [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 -
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
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 dictionary
fictions'fɪkʃnnoun
+a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
+a deliberately false or improbable account
