Fictions - English meaning

noun

Coarse dust.

Usage examples:

Roads that have been showered only with a bulldust become soapy quagmires for unwitting drivers, an…

noun

Stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense.

verb

Talk nonsense to (someone) in an attempt to deceive them.

exclamation

A rude word for complete nonsense or something that is not true

Usage examples:

Bullshit! he never said that!, us he gave me some excuse but it was a bunch of bullshit., uk he gav…

noun

A mixture of various ingredients or elements.

Usage examples:

The facade is a strange concoction of northern mannerism and italian baroque

noun

Something put together from several different things

Usage examples:

She drinks this herbal concoction.

noun

A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

Usage examples:

The fable of the sick lion and the wary fox

verb

Tell fictitious tales.

Usage examples:

I do not dream nor fable

noun

A short story that tells a moral truth, often using animals as characters

Usage examples:

Latisha loves the fable about the grasshopper and the ant.

noun

The action or process of manufacturing or inventing something.

Usage examples:

The assembly and fabrication of electronic products

noun

The act of inventing false information in order to deceive someone, or the false information itself

Usage examples:

The report stopped short of accusing anyone of fabrication of evidence., the evidence he gave in co…

noun

The state of being untrue.

Usage examples:

The truth or falsehood of the many legends which surround her

noun

Something that is not true; a lie

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

verb

Feel a desire or liking for.

Usage examples:

Do you fancy a drink?

noun

A superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction.

Usage examples:

This was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by

noun

The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things.

Usage examples:

His researches had moved into the realms of fantasy

verb

Imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about.

Usage examples:

It is ludicrous to fantasy ‘disinventing’ the hydrogen bomb

noun

A pleasant but unlikely situation that you enjoy thinking about, or the activity of thinking in this way

Usage examples:

[ c ] writing songs was just a fantasy of mine., [ u ] she retreated from life into a world of fant…

noun

A lie, typically an unimportant one.

Usage examples:

Why did you tell him such a dreadful fib?

verb

Tell a fib.

Usage examples:

But a cornell professor recently claimed to have established the truth of a curious proposition: we…

noun

An unimportant lie

Usage examples:

Have you been telling fibs about me?, george was fibbing some to make things seem more exciting.

noun

An instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience.

Usage examples:

Stripes embellish the surface to create the illusion of various wood-grain textures

noun

An idea or belief that is not true, or something that is not what it seems to be

Usage examples:

We have no illusions about how difficult the job will be., [ + that clause ] i was under the illusi…

noun

The action of inventing something, typically a process or device.

Usage examples:

The invention of printing in the 15th century

noun

Something newly designed or created, or the activity of designing or creating new things

Usage examples:

[ c ] the mountain bike was a california invention., [ u ] the invention of the pressure cooker pro…

noun

A product or a way of doing something which has never been made or never existed before

Usage examples:

Turning an invention from an idea into a money-making product is a long job., a new inventions, the…

verb

(of a person or animal) be in or assume a horizontal or resting position on a supporting surface.

Usage examples:

The body lay face downwards on the grass

noun

The way, direction, or position in which something lies.

Usage examples:

He was familiarizing himself with the lie of the streets

verb

Tell a lie or lies.

Usage examples:

Why had ashenden lied about his visit to london?

noun

The action or process of narrating a story.

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The style of narration in the novel

noun

The telling of a story, or the work of a narrator

noun

A note in a set of accounts that gives details about a payment made or received

noun

Spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense.

Usage examples:

He was talking absolute nonsense

noun

Foolish words or actions

Usage examples:

Those accusations are pure/sheer nonsense., what’s all this nonsense about quitting school?

noun

A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

Usage examples:

The novels of jane austen

adjective

Interestingly new or unusual.

Usage examples:

He hit on a novel idea to solve his financial problems

noun

A long, printed story about imaginary characters and events

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Literary/romance novels, a novel idea/suggestion

noun

A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.

Usage examples:

I had a thirst for romance

verb

Try to gain the love of; court.

Usage examples:

The wealthy estate owner romanced her

adjective

Relating to or denoting the group of indo-european languages descended from latin, principally french, spanish, portuguese, italian, catalan, occitan, and romanian.

Usage examples:

The romance languages

noun

A thing that is not what it is purported to be.

Usage examples:

Our current free health service is a sham

adjective

Bogus; false.

Usage examples:

A clergyman who arranged a sham marriage

verb

Short for pillow sham.

noun

A part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level.

Usage examples:

A three-storey building

noun

An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment.

Usage examples:

An adventure story

noun

A description of events that actually happened or that are invented

Usage examples:

There was a news story on television about flooding on the west coast., my daughter won’t go to bed…

noun

A lie or false statement (often used euphemistically).

Usage examples:

They go off and tell untruths about organizations for which they worked

noun

A statement that is not true

Usage examples:

It's not the first time that the paper has been in trouble for printing untruths about people's pri…