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
name
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For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names .
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Perhaps the assassin's fictitious name was Tailler's final joke.
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Easton is the fictitious name we have given to the area of Belfast in which our research was located.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The setting is a fictitious island in the Chesapeake River.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But all these superstitions are really altogether on a fictitious basis.
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Does such a fictitious person have a reputation which it can protect by the law of defamation?
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For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names.
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The show, which depicts eight officers patrolling the fictitious town of El Camino, debuted March 3.
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Yet the popular traditions from which such stories presumably came were not always totally fictitious , and can not be simply ignored.
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Your little friendship lamp is now a lighthouse in the fictitious Midwestern city of Springfield.