Betekenis van fiction In het Nederlands

• 0 the type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and not based on real people and facts:

  • The book is a work of fiction and not intended as a historical account.

  • a writer of children's fiction

  • [ + that ] At work she kept up the fiction that she had a university degree.

  • When he's telling you something, you never know what's fact and what's fiction.

• 1 the type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and does not describe real people or deal with facts, or a false report or statement that you pretend is true:

  • [ U ] She wrote detective fiction and made a good living at it.

  • [ C usually sing ] It was a fiction, though widely believed, that he had once been rich.