fact
• noun 1 a thing that is indisputably the case. 2 (facts) information used as evidence or as part of a report.
— PHRASES a fact of life something that must be accepted, even if unpalatable. in (point of) fact in reality.
— ORIGIN originally meaning an act
, later a crime
: from Latin factum, from facere ‘do’.
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