Definitions for faction

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faction fac·tion

Spelling: [fak-shuh n]

IPA: /ˈfæk ʃən/

Faction is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in faction (acfinot).

Definitions for faction

noun

1. a group or clique within a larger group, party, government, organization, or the like:
2. party strife and intrigue; dissension:
3. a form of writing or filmmaking that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses them as an integral part of a fictional account.
4. a novel, film, play, or other presentation in this form.

Origin of faction

1500-10; Latin factiōn- (stem of factiō) a doing, company, equivalent to fact(us) done (see fact) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for faction

One faction contends violent games invite real-world brutality, and the other faction defends violent games as innocuous.

The Greenwich faction knew how to take advantage of this disposition.

Honor, I did not lift my hand against him; but I was in the quarrel with his faction.

But it is not clear if the latest action is at the hands of that faction or another.

Dostum was then commander of an armored unit in the army and a member of the Parcham faction.

All the Kings of faction received in their turns his homage and felicitations.

In what age or what country was there ever a man so ‘left by faction?’

It was a faction of Senate Democrats that saved the nomination of Clarence Thomas in 1991.

The people looked upon her as belonging to them more than she had done before, and faction was silenced by the general delight.

This faction of the opposition is itself fractured into dozens of splinter groups.