1 [U] a type of literature that describes imaginary people and events, not real ones:
a work of popular fiction * historical / romantic fiction
OPPNON-FICTION
seealsoSCIENCEFICTION
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
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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