fact

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A piece of information that is true and can be proven.

   First you must collect all the facts of the case.

2. 2
   noun

   Something that is really true, as opposed to something invented or imagined.

   Gravity is a fact, not just a theory.

Common collocations

• basic fact Adjective + noun
• simple fact Adjective + noun
• check the facts Verb + noun

From Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for “state, condition, circumstance”; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.

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