real
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: rēəl, riəl, rēl, IPA(key): /ˈɹiːəl/, /ɹɪə̯l/, /ɹiːl/, /ˈɹi.jəl/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːəl
- Homophone: reel (some accents)
Adjective edit
real (comparative realer or more real, superlative realest or most real)
- True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
- 2007, Jim Kokoris, The Rich Part of Life: A Novel, →ISBN, page 179:
- [T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]
- 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
- Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
- Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- This is real leather.
- Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Whose perfection farr excell’d Hers in all real dignitie
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
- These are real tears!
- Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
- a description of real life
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real, as the dream / Had lively shadowed.
- That has objective, physical existence.
- No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
- (economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).
- My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
- What is the real GNP of this polity?
- (economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
- (mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
- (law) Relating to immovable tangible property.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Cunning”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.
- Absolute, complete, utter.
- This is a real problem.
- (slang) Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially as regard the enjoyment of life, prowess at sports, or success wooing potential partners.
- I'm keeping it real.
- (informal) Firm.
- yo, Imma be real with u... don't ever text me again
Synonyms edit
- (true, genuine): true, actual
- (genuine, not artificial): authentic, genuine, actual
- (genuine, unfeigned): authentic, genuine, heartfelt, true, actual
- (that has physical existence): actual
Antonyms edit
- (true, genuine): imaginary, nonreal, unreal
- (genuine, not artificial): artificial, counterfeit, fake, sham
- (genuine, unfeigned): feigned, sham, staged
- (that has physical existence): fictitious, imaginary, made-up, pretend (informal)
- (relating to numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line): imaginary
Derived terms edit
- cyberreal
- for real
- for real life
- get real
- it's been real
- keep it real
- on the real
- real ale
- real analysis
- real asset
- real axis
- real body
- real capital
- real covenant
- real deal
- real estate
- real estate agent
- real focus
- real function
- real gone
- real image
- real income
- reality
- real jam
- real life
- real-life experience
- real line
- really
- real Macoy
- real market
- real matrix
- real McCoy
- real McKoy
- real men don't eat quiche
- real mode
- real nappy
- realness
- real number
- real one
- real option
- real part
- real-person fiction
- real person fiction
- real plane
- real presence
- real projective plane
- real property
- real property tax
- real reality
- real return
- real right
- real school
- real soon now
- real storage
- real stuff
- real superhero
- real talk
- real tennis
- real thing
- real time
- real-time
- real valued
- real-valued
- real variable
- real vector space
- real wages
- real world
- real-world
- real-worlder
- shadow real wage
- shit just got real
- soft real-time
- the real deal
- the real thing
- the real treasure is the friends we made along the way
- the struggle is real
- will the real someone please stand up
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Adverb edit
real (not comparable)
- (US, colloquial) Really; very.
- When I told him the truth, he got real mad.
Translations edit
Noun edit
real (plural reals)
- A commodity; see realty.
- (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
- (mathematics) A real number.
- 2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11:
- There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."
- (obsolete) A realist.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Spanish real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
- A coin worth one real.
Translations edit
Etymology 3 edit
From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
real (plural reis or réis or reals)
- A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.
- A coin worth one real.
Noun edit
- A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.
- 2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
- Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants.
- A coin worth one real.
Synonyms edit
- (old Portuguese and Brazilian unit of currency): rei
Meronyms edit
- (current Brazilian unit of currency): centavo
Related terms edit
Translations edit
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Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Adjective edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Late Latin reālis, from Latin rēs.
Adjective edit
real m or f (masculine and feminine plural reals)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
real m (plural reals)
- real (currency of Brazil)
Further reading edit
- “real” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “real”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “real” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “real” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin reālis (“real, actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”).
Adjective edit
real
Synonyms edit
References edit
Estonian edit
Noun edit
real
Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin rēgālis (“royal”), from rēx (“king”) + -alis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).
Adjective edit
real m or f (plural reais)
Related terms edit
Noun edit
real m (plural reais)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“thing; possession”).
Adjective edit
real m or f (plural reais)
- real (actually being, existing)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “real” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin reālis. Doublet of reell.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
real (strong nominative masculine singular realer, comparative realer, superlative am realsten)
- real (that has physical existence)
- Synonyms: echt, existent, bestehend, gegenständlich, dinglich
- real existierender Sozialismus ― real socialism
- real, realistic (pertaining to reality)
- Diese Geschichte ist nicht real. ― This story is not real.
- Sie ist ein kluges Mädchen; sie denkt real. ― She is a smart girl; she thinks realistically.
- reale Pläne ― real plans
- real-world, practical, particularly (now chiefly archaic) concerned with actual things as opposed to words or ideas
- Realschule ― real school, school
- Realencyclopädie ― encyclopedia
- Realwörterbuch ― encyclopedia, technical dictionary
- (economics) real (not nominal), measured in purchasing power
- reales Einkommen ― real income
Declension edit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist real | sie ist real | es ist real | sie sind real | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | realer | reale | reales | reale |
genitive | realen | realer | realen | realer | |
dative | realem | realer | realem | realen | |
accusative | realen | reale | reales | reale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der reale | die reale | das reale | die realen |
genitive | des realen | der realen | des realen | der realen | |
dative | dem realen | der realen | dem realen | den realen | |
accusative | den realen | die reale | das reale | die realen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein realer | eine reale | ein reales | (keine) realen |
genitive | eines realen | einer realen | eines realen | (keiner) realen | |
dative | einem realen | einer realen | einem realen | (keinen) realen | |
accusative | einen realen | eine reale | ein reales | (keine) realen |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist realer | sie ist realer | es ist realer | sie sind realer | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | realerer | realere | realeres | realere |
genitive | realeren | realerer | realeren | realerer | |
dative | realerem | realerer | realerem | realeren | |
accusative | realeren | realere | realeres | realere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der realere | die realere | das realere | die realeren |
genitive | des realeren | der realeren | des realeren | der realeren | |
dative | dem realeren | der realeren | dem realeren | den realeren | |
accusative | den realeren | die realere | das realere | die realeren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein realerer | eine realere | ein realeres | (keine) realeren |
genitive | eines realeren | einer realeren | eines realeren | (keiner) realeren | |
dative | einem realeren | einer realeren | einem realeren | (keinen) realeren | |
accusative | einen realeren | eine realere | ein realeres | (keine) realeren |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist am realsten | sie ist am realsten | es ist am realsten | sie sind am realsten | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | realster | realste | realstes | realste |
genitive | realsten | realster | realsten | realster | |
dative | realstem | realster | realstem | realsten | |
accusative | realsten | realste | realstes | realste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der realste | die realste | das realste | die realsten |
genitive | des realsten | der realsten | des realsten | der realsten | |
dative | dem realsten | der realsten | dem realsten | den realsten | |
accusative | den realsten | die realste | das realste | die realsten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein realster | eine realste | ein realstes | (keine) realsten |
genitive | eines realsten | einer realsten | eines realsten | (keiner) realsten | |
dative | einem realsten | einer realsten | einem realsten | (keinen) realsten | |
accusative | einen realsten | eine realste | ein realstes | (keine) realsten |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Polish: realny
See also edit
Further reading edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From English real, from Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of riil.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
real
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “real” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
real
- (Late Middle English) real, true, factual
- (Late Middle English, law) concerning possessions
Descendants edit
References edit
- “rēal, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
real
- Alternative form of ryal
Noun edit
real
- Alternative form of ryal
Adverb edit
real
- Alternative form of ryal
Middle French edit
Adjective edit
real m (feminine singular reale, masculine plural reals, feminine plural reales)
- Alternative form of royal
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Late Latin realis.
Adjective edit
real (masculine and feminine real, neuter realt, definite singular and plural reale)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Portuguese real, from Latin regalis.
Noun edit
real m (definite singular realen, indefinite plural realer, definite plural realene)
- the real, monetary unit of Brazil
References edit
- Template:R:NB
- “real” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Late Latin reālis, from Latin rēs (“thing”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
real (neuter realt, definite singular and plural reale)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Spanish and Portuguese real, from Latin rēgālis (“royal”). Doublet of rijal.
Noun edit
real m (definite singular realen, indefinite plural realar, definite plural realane)
- the real, monetary unit of Brazil
- (historical) a real, one of the former units of currency and coins used in Spain, Portugal and their colonies
- 1887, Prosper Mérimée, “Røvarliv i Spania [Letters from Spain]”, in Sjur, transl., Ungdom: franske forteljingar [Youth – French tales], translation of Lettres d'Espagne, page 34:
- "Og han fekk dei 1,500 realarne, Jose Maria, elder rettare: han fekk dei att."
- "And he got those 1,500 reales, Jose Maria, or more accurately: he got them back again."
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
real ?
- (education, historical, colloquial) short for realskuleklasse
- 1991, Ola Grøvdal, Engelen og måsen, page 26:
- Han tok til å drikke øl i 6., vin i 7. og vodka i 1. real […]
- He began drinking beer in the sixth, wine in the seventh and vodka in the eighth [grade] […]
References edit
- “real” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “real”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
Anagrams edit
Old French edit
Adjective edit
real m (oblique and nominative feminine singular real or reale)
- royal; Alternative form of roial
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- El palés real venu sont
- They came into the royal palace
Declension edit
Descendants edit
- Middle French: real
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish real, from Latin rēgālis.
Noun edit
real m inan
- (historical) real (former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Portuguese real, from Latin rēgālis.
Noun edit
real m inan
- (historical) real (former unit of currency of Portugal and Brazil)
- real (currency of Brazil)
Declension edit
Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from English (in) real (life).
Noun edit
real m inan
- (Internet, slang) reality, real life, real world (physical reality as opposed to virtual reality)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Homophones: Real, rial (Portugal), Rial (Portugal)
- Hyphenation: re‧al
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin reālem (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“thing; possession”).
Adjective edit
real m or f (plural reais, comparable, comparative mais real, superlative o mais real or realíssimo)
- true, real
- that has physical existence; real
- (mathematics, of a number) being a member of the set of real numbers; real
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Noun edit
real m (plural reais)
Noun edit
real f (plural reais)
- (Brazil, colloquial, uncountable) truth (conformity to fact or reality)
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin rēgālis (“royal”), from rēx (“king”) + -ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).
Adjective edit
real m or f (plural reais)
Related terms edit
Noun edit
real m (plural reais)
- a former Spanish currency
- the current Brazilian currency
Noun edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French réel, German real, both from Late Latin reālis (“real, actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
real m or n (feminine singular reală, masculine plural reali, feminine and neuter plural reale)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- real in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
- Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”).
Adjective edit
real m or f (masculine and feminine plural reales)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”), from rēx. Cognate with English regal and royal.
Adjective edit
real m or f (masculine and feminine plural reales)
Noun edit
real m (plural reales)
- real (unit of currency)
- (Spain, historical, colloquial) a quarter of a peseta
Derived terms edit
- acción real
- águila real
- ánade real
- asentar los reales
- búho real
- camino real
- cañada real
- casa real
- chinchilla real
- cobra real
- escalera real
- garza real
- impuesto real
- jalea real
- levantar el real
- manjar real
- manzanilla real
- Marcha Real
- oficial real
- pagaza real
- pava real
- pavo real
- pinzón real
- pito real
- por cuatro reales
- por real decreto
- real de agua
- real de minas
- real de plata
- real de vellón
- real decreto
- real orden
- salvia real de México
- tablas reales
- zorzal real
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “real”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Adjective edit
real (not comparable)
Declension edit
Inflection of real | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | real | — | — |
Neuter singular | realt | — | — |
Plural | reala | — | — |
Masculine plural3 | reale | — | — |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | reale | — | — |
All | reala | — | — |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Synonyms edit
Noun edit
real c
- Clipping of realskola.
- Clipping of realskoleexamen.
- real (currency of Brazil and formerly Portugal)
Declension edit
Declension of real | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | real | realen | realer | realerna |
Genitive | reals | realens | realers | realernas |
References edit
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish real, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”).
Adjective edit
reál (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜌᜎ᜔)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Spanish real, from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”), from rēx.
Noun edit
reál (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜌᜎ᜔)
- real (unit of currency)
Adjective edit
reál (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜌᜎ᜔)
- royal (used in certain expressions)