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How to pronounce fiction in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fable, fabrication
Type of untruth, falsehood, falsity
Has types canard
Derivation fictional, fictionalize, fictitious
Type Words
Type of literary work, literary composition
Has types fantasy, novel, phantasy, story, dystopia, utopia
Derivation fictional, fictionalize, fictitious

Examples of fiction

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When it comes to non-fiction, I know a lot about ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
From the telegraph.co.uk
He is also keen to see a renewed emphasis on fiction, and on books for children.
From the nzherald.co.nz
It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer.
From the guardian.co.uk
I've packed between 10 and 20 works of fiction alongside my smalls on each trip.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It's the stuff of science fiction, but the reality is assuredly more disturbing.
From the suntimes.com
Egan's novel about the passage of time won the Pulitzer for best fiction Monday.
From the kentucky.com
Alan Ayckbourn has hit 74 theatrical works but that doesn't cheapen his fiction.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Fiction has to make sense.-Tom ClancyThis evening I met a friend at a local bar.
From the marcandangel.com
Boardwalk Empire is a work of historical fiction, but the past has its own past.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
More examples
  • A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
  • Fabrication: a deliberately false or improbable account
  • (fictional) related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery"
  • (fictional) fabricated: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"
  • (fictive) assumed: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
  • (fictive) capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"
  • Fiction (Latin: fictum, "created") is any form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). ...
  • Fiction are a four-piece band from London. They formed in early 2009 but have played together in various bands before.
  • Fiction was released in 1982 on Polydor Records. It was the Comsat Angels' third album. The album was reissued on CD twice, in 1995 by RPM Records and in 2006 by Renascent, with different track listings (see below). The album peaked at #94 in the UK charts in September 1982.