fictionとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: fĭk′-shən, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪk.ʃən/
• ハイフネーション: fic‧tion

• 韻: -ɪkʃən

名詞

fiction (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fictions)

1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

   The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.

   I am a great reader of fiction.

   the fiction section of the library

   • 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:

     [...] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., [...].

2. (uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).

   The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

   separate the fact from the fiction

3. (law) A legal fiction.

同意語

• fabrication
• figment

反意語

• documentary
• fact
• non-fiction
• truth

上位語

• literary type

下位語

• science fiction
• speculative fiction

派生語

• fictitious
• fictional
• non-fiction

関連する語

• fiction section

派生した語

• → Irish: ficsean
• → Scottish Gaelic: ficsean

Further reading

• fiction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fiction in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fiction at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "fiction" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 134.