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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?k/, enPR: f?k
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means”); akin to Dutch veeg (“a slap”), vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare Old English f?cn, f?cen (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related to Old Norse fjúka (“fade, vanquish, disappear”), feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).

Adjective

fake (comparative faker or more fake, superlative fakest or most fake)

1. Not real; false, fraudulent.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fake

   Antonyms: authentic, genuine

2. (of people) Insincere.

Derived terms

• fakeness

Translations

Noun

fake (plural fakes)

1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

   I suspect this passport is a fake.

2. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
3. (archaic) A trick; a swindle.

Synonyms

• (soccer move): feint, (ice hockey move): deke

Translations

Verb

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

1. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
2. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

3. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
4. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
5. (music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
   • 1994, ITA Journal (volume 22, page 20)

     Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.

   • Denning, cited in 2020, Matt Brennan, Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (page 110)

     In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.

Synonyms

• (modify fraudulently): adulterate
• (make a false display): pass off, pose

Derived terms

• fake it
• fake out
• faker

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).

Noun

fake (plural fakes)

1. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Translations

Verb

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

1. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

Translations

Further reading

• fake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fake at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• feak

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??ke/

Verb

faké

1. (transitive) open

Conjugation

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 275

Kristang

Noun

fake

1. knife

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fake.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fejk(i)/

Noun

fake m (plural fakes)

1. (Internet slang) a fake account in a social network or other online community; a sock puppet

Adjective

fake (invariable, comparable)

1. (Internet slang, of an image or video shared on the web) fake, manipulated, not genuine

   Synonym: falso

   Antonyms: genuíno, real, autêntico

English

Etymology

From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin ficti? (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fing? (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?k?-sh?n, IPA^(key): /?f?k.??n/
• Hyphenation: fic?tion

• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)

1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
2. (uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).

3. (law) A legal fiction.

Synonyms

• fabrication
• figment

Antonyms

• documentary
• fact
• non-fiction
• truth

Hypernyms

• literary type

Hyponyms

• science fiction
• speculative fiction

Derived terms

• fictitious
• fictional
• non-fiction

Related terms

• fiction section

Descendants

• ? Irish: ficsean
• ? Scottish Gaelic: ficsean

Translations

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.

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin fictionem (nominative of fictio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fik.sj??/

Noun

fiction f (plural fictions)

1. fiction

Related terms

• fictif
• science-fiction

Further reading

• “fiction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).