Fabrication - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃn|  American pronunciation of the word fabrication
Brit.  |fæbrɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word fabrication

noun

- a deliberately false or improbable account (syn: fable, fiction)
- writing in a fictional form
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials (syn: manufacture, manufacturing)
the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) (syn: assembly)
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth (syn: lying, prevarication)

Extra examples

...her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication...

...the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers...

Of course, it might all be complete fabrication.

Word forms

noun
singular: fabrication
plural: fabrications
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