different between fiction vs nobel

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).

English

Adjective

nobel

1. Misspelling of noble.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch nobel.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nobel (comparative nobeler, superlative nobelste)

1. noble, honourable

   Synonym: edel

German

Etymology

From French noble, from Latin nobilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?no?b?l/

Adjective

nobel (comparative nobler, superlative am nobelsten)

1. noble, honourable

Declension

Further reading

• “nobel” in Duden online

Italian

Noun

nobel m or f (invariable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Nobel (“Nobel Prize winner”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French noble.

Adjective

n?bel

1. noble, of noble birth

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: nobel

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “nobel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.b?l/

Noun

nobel m inan

1. nobelium (chemical element, No, atomic number 102)
2. noble (medieval coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries)

Spanish

Noun

nobel m (plural nobel)

1. Nobel Prize

   Synonym: Premio Nobel

Noun

nobel m or f (plural nobel)

1. Nobel Prize winner

   Synonym: premio nobel

Swedish

Adjective

nobel

1. noble (having honorable qualities)

Declension

Anagrams

• noble