different between folktale vs fiction

English

Alternative forms

• folk tale

Etymology

folk +? tale

Noun

folktale (plural folktales)

1. A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.

   Synonym: folk story

See also

• folklore

Translations

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).