"fictionary" meaning in English

See fictionary in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/ [US], /ˈfɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fictionary.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɪkʃənɛəɹi Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti 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 Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English fictionary From fiction + -ary. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:af|fiction|-ary|id=fictional|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti 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 Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English fictionary [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dʰeyǵʰ-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*θingō", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*fingō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "fingō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*-tiHō", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tis", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-Hō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-tiō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-tiō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "fictiō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "ficcion", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "ficcioun", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "fiction", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjective", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjective", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "suffix", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-yós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-āsjos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ārius", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-arie", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ary", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "fictionary", "lang" : "en" }" data-id="fictional" data-lang="en" data-title="fictionary" id="English:_fictional"> From fiction + -ary. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} fictionary (not comparable)
  1. Fictional. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-fictionary-en-adj-PvAb~agA Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ary
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/ [US], /ˈfɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fictionary.wav [Southern-England] Forms: fictionaries [plural], Fictionary [alternative]
Rhymes: -ɪkʃənɛəɹi Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti 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 Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Classical Latin dīcō ▲ Classical Latin -tiō Classical Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Classical Latin -ārius Classical Latin -ārium Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary blend English fictionary Blend of fiction + dictionary. Etymology templates: {{wp}}, {{etymon|en|:blend|fiction|dictionary|id=dictionary|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti 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 Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Classical Latin dīcō ▲ Classical Latin -tiō Classical Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Classical Latin -ārius Classical Latin -ārium Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary blend English fictionary [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dʰeyǵʰ-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*θingō", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*fingō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "fingō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*-tiHō", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tis", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-Hō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-tiō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-tiō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "fictiō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "ficcion", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "ficcioun", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "fiction", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "dictionary", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "lbor.", "keyword_label" : "Learned borrowing from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "dictionary", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "speech", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to speak", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to show", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to be pointing out", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to point out", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*deyḱ-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*déyḱeti", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*deikō", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Classical Latin", "term" : "dīcō", "lang" : "la-cla" }, { "is_duplicate" : true, "id" : "action or result", "children" : [ ], "status" : { "1" : "la", "2" : ":inh", "3" : "itc-pro:*-tiō", "id" : "action or result", "tree" : "1", "title" : "-tiō" }, "lang_name" : "Classical Latin", "term" : "-tiō", "lang" : "la-cla" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Classical Latin", "term" : "dictiō", "lang" : "la-cla" }, { "id" : "storage location", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjective", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjective", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "suffix", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-yós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-āsjos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Classical Latin", "term" : "-ārius", "lang" : "la-cla" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Classical Latin", "term" : "-ārium", "lang" : "la-cla" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Medieval Latin", "term" : "dictiōnārium", "lang" : "la-med" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "dixionare", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" }, { "terms" : [ { "id" : "?", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "diction", "lang" : "en" }, { "id" : "?", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ary", "lang" : "en" } ], "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "afeq", "is_invisible" : "all" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "dictionary", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "Blend of", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "blend" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "fictionary", "lang" : "en" }" data-id="dictionary" data-lang="en" data-title="fictionary" id="English:_dictionary"> Blend of fiction + dictionary. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fictionary (countable and uncountable, plural fictionaries)
  1. A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a dictionary, and as one person reads them out, the others try to guess which one is the correct definition. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fictionary-en-noun-gw4ifHPE Categories (other): English blends, English entries referencing etymons with mismatched IDs, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees Disambiguation of English blends: 0 68 32 Disambiguation of English entries referencing etymons with mismatched IDs: 2 51 47 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 0 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 0 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 57 41 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 21 50 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 53 37 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 42 33 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 17 59 25
  2. (countable, rare) A dictionary with contrived entries. Tags: countable, rare
    Sense id: en-fictionary-en-noun-21Q2MRDi Categories (other): English entries referencing etymons with mismatched IDs, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymology trees Disambiguation of English entries referencing etymons with mismatched IDs: 2 51 47 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 0 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 0 51 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms: dictionary
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "I used to spend my mornings in the large, deserted drawing-room, whose charm was not yet broken, inditing ardent letters, into which my whole soul undisguised, was breathed to an imaginary friend; or writing some fragmentary sketches of the life of some fictionary favourite of fortune, in whose fate I always foreshadowed my own.",
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          "ref": "1869, The Cornhill Magazine, Volume XIX: January to June, 1869, page 37:",
          "text": "Lastly, there were not a few scholars who, discarding the idea that myths were purely fictionary, and admitting a basis of reality, yet found that basis not in historical occurrence but in natural phenomena.",
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          "text": "Omitting, for the occasion, all thought of Anglo-Saxon literary remains, histories, chronicles, theological, fictionary, and scientific works, the entire number of documentary evidences, such as charters, wills, etc., of the Saxon period in England is very limited.",
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          "text": "Showing a lady into a library in which were alcoves, the books being arranged by subjects, he said, \"Now, Miss Mary, I will show you the concave^([sic]) of fictionary novels.\"'",
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