{
    "term": "fiction",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a type of literature that describes imaginary people and events, not real ones",
            "labels": "(US English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **work of **popular **fiction**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "historical/romantic/crime fiction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to write/read fiction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a crime **fiction writer**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has written novels and short fiction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a well-known writer of crime fiction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has written over 20 works of fiction."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["contemporary", "modern", "classic"],
                "verb + fiction": ["publish", "write", "create"],
                "phrases": ["a work of fiction", "a writer of fiction"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a thing that is invented or imagined and is not true",
            "sensetop": "fiction that…",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't believe what she says—it's pure fiction!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "For years he managed to keep up the fiction that he was not married.",
                    "contextForm": "fiction that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She still tries to maintain the fiction that she is happily married."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fact and fiction became all jumbled up in his report of the robbery."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["pure", "legal"],
                "verb + fiction": ["keep up", "maintain", "create"],
                "phrases": ["fact and fiction"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that things that actually happen are often more surprising than stories that are invented",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɪkʃn/",
                "audio": "fi/fiction/fiction__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɪkʃn/",
                "audio": "fi/fiction/fiction__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘invented statement’): via Old French from Latin fictio(n-), from fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and figment."
}