[fakt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a thing that is known or proved to be true
(e.g: he ignores some historical and economic facts)


Phrases:
- a fact of life
- after the fact
- before the fact
- facts and figures
- in fact
- the fact of the matter
- the fact that
- the facts of life

Origin:
late 15th century: from Latin factum, neuter past participle of facere ‘do’. The original sense was ‘an act’, later ‘a crime’, surviving in the phrase before (or after) the fact. The earliest of the current senses (‘truth, reality’) dates from the late 16th century