factoid
pronunciation
How to pronounce factoid in British English:
UK [ˈfæktɔɪd]
How to pronounce factoid in American English:
US [ˈfæktɔɪd]
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- Noun:
- something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print
- a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item
Word Origin
- factoid (n.)
- 1973, "published statement taken to be a fact because of its appearance in print," from fact + -oid, first explained, if not coined, by Norman Mailer.Factoids ... that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority. [Mailer, "Marilyn," 1973] By 1988 it was being used in the sense of "small, isolated bit of true factual information."
Example
- 1. Royal factoid : pahlavi is trained as a fighter pilot .
- 2. Adopt a snow leopard . Factoid : snow leopards can leap nearly six times their body length .
- 3. Royal factoid : he was the first dethroned monarch to ever win back power in a democratic vote .
- 4. Don 't believe in those unconfirmed factoid told by the fortuneteller .
- 5. Royal factoid : leka was expelled from spain on suspicion of arms dealing , a charge for which he was also arrested in bangkok .