adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fictional/fictitious (= not existing in real life )
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People sometimes forget that television characters are fictional.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
account
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With Patricia Duncker's fictional account we follow Barry from tomboy to Edinburgh student, colonial doctor and heart-throb.
character
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Does the writer address the reader directly, or through the words or thoughts of some fictional character ?
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The entire cast -- 23 actors portraying inmates portraying fictional characters based on real ones -- inhabit the stage simultaneously.
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Though a fictional character , Cu Chulainn came to stand for a very real sense of patriotic courage and self-sacrifice.
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But this isn't just another crass commercialisation of a fictional character .
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The original accusations levelled by Thorez were based on a fictitious analogy between Nizan himself and the fictional character Pluvinage.
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Even if they are fictional characters , it doesn't bode well for the poor things.
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But then right-wing, upper-class fictional characters would have fun even if tentacled Martians were chasing them through sewage.
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But the issue of how a fictional character can function as a contemporary monument is unresolved.
world
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Rather than inventing a unique fictional world , it creates a recognisable reality that calls for accuracy.
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The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott.
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The second of Nietzsche's virtues, reality, pits him against the fictional world of the Christians.
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The ontological status of fictional worlds has been of interest to philosophers as well as literary critics.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Holmes is a popular fictional character.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the fictional Inspector Morse freely wanders the cloisters, technically police can not enter college grounds without permission from the master.
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Does the writer address the reader directly, or through the words or thoughts of some fictional character?
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I should guess that your little friend has a splendid knack of observation but no fictional powers.
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It was only later that the aesthetic dimension of literary study became emphasized, with an accompanying concentration on the fictional genres.
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Philip becomes aware of the process through which we invent our own identities based on the fictional paradigms at our disposal.
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Romances are love stories, and they do take the subject of love and give it a fictional treatment.