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nonfiction en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction English nonfiction From non- + fiction.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.
   • Encyclopedias, how-to manuals and biographies are all considered nonfiction and so are kept in the nonfiction section.
   • A sudoku book sits atop the Nielsen BookScan nonfiction best-seller list. 2005 May 23, Eric Pfanner, “Puzzling phenomenon sweeps British papers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2021:

Forms

Deriveds

creative nonfiction · nonfiction novel

Relateds

nonfictional

Translations (29)

fi tietokirjallisuus (written works intended to give facts) · mk на́учно-документа́рна литерату́ра (written works intended to give facts) · th สารคดี (written works intended to give facts) · it saggistico (written works intended to give facts) · ang sōþspell (written works intended to give facts) · hu ismeretterjesztő (written works intended to give facts) · fr non-fiction (written works intended to give facts) · cs literatura faktu (written works intended to give facts) · mk стручна литерату́ра (written works intended to give facts) · ja ノンフィクション (written works intended to give facts) · vi không hư cấu (written works intended to give facts) · da faglitteratur (written works intended to give facts) · pl literatura faktu (written works intended to give facts) · ka სამეცნიერო ლიტერატურა (written works intended to give facts) · eo nefikcio (written works intended to give facts) · sw sibunilizi (written works intended to give facts) · it saggistica (written works intended to give facts) · ka არამხატვრული ლიტერატურა (written works intended to give facts) · no faglitteratur (written works intended to give facts) · cmn 非虛構文學 /非虚构文学 (written works intended to give facts) · es no ficción (written works intended to give facts) · ka აკადემიური ლიტერატურა (written works intended to give facts) · nl non-fictie (written works intended to give facts) · sv facklitteratur (written works intended to give facts) · ru документа́льная литерату́ра (written works intended to give facts) · fa غیرداستان (written works intended to give facts) · ka დოკუმენტური ლიტერატურა (written works intended to give facts) · vi phi hư cấu (written works intended to give facts) · de Sachliteratur (written works intended to give facts)