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”).

• enPR: rēəl, riəl, rēl, IPA^(key): /ˈriːəl/, /rɪə̯l/, /riːl/

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• Homophone: reel (some accents)

real (comparative realer or more real, superlative realest or most real)

1. 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.

2. Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, 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.

3. Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Whose perfection far excelled / Hers in all real dignity.

   • 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!

4. Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

   a description of real life

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real, as the dream / Had lively shadowed.

5. That has objective, physical existence.

   No one has ever seen a real unicorn.

6. (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?

7. (economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
8. (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.
9. (law) Relating to immovable tangible property.

   real estate;  real property

   • (Can we date this quote?) Francis Bacon

     Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.

10. Absolute, complete, utter.

    This is a real problem.

11. (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.

• (true, genuine): true, actual
• (genuine, not artificial): authentic, genuine, actual
• (genuine, unfeigned): authentic, genuine, heartfelt, true, actual
• (that has physical existence): actual

• (true, genuine): imaginary, non-real, 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

real (not comparable)

1. (US, colloquial) Really, very.

real (plural reals)

1. A commodity; see realty.
2. (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
3. (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."

4. (obsolete) A realist.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burton to this entry?)

Borrowed from Spanish real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”). Doublet of regal and royal.

• (UK) enPR: rāäl', IPA^(key): /ɹeɪˈɑːl/
• (US) enPR: rāäl', IPA^(key): /ɹeɪˈɑl/

real (plural reales)

1. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
2. A coin worth one real.

From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”).

real (plural reis or réis or reals)

1. A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.
2. A coin worth one real.

real (plural reais or reals)

Brazilian real coins (2nd family, as of 2010)

1. A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.
   • 2011, Perry Anderson, "Lula's Brazil", 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.

2. A coin worth one real.

• (old Portuguese and Brazilian unit of currency): rei

• (current Brazilian unit of currency): centavo

• regal
• royal
• milreis

• Arel, Earl, Elar, Lare, Lear, Rael, Raël, earl, lare, lear, rale

real (epicene, plural reales)

1. real
2. royal

Borrowed from Late Latin reālis, from Latin rēs.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /reˈal/

real (masculine and feminine plural reals)

1. real

• nombre real
• realment

• realitat

• “real” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “real” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

Borrowed from Late Latin reālis (“real, actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”).

real

1. real (true, genuine)
2. real (that has physical existence)

• aqiqiy, kerçek

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From Latin rēgālis (“royal”), from rēx (“king”) + -alis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

real m or f (plural reais)

1. royal

   Synonym: rexio

• realeza
• rei

real m (plural reais)

1. real (former unit of currency of Spain)
2. real (unit of currency used in Brazil)

Borrowed from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“thing; possession”).

real m or f (plural reais)

1. real (actually being, existing)

• número real

• realidade
• realismo
• realista

• “real” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Borrowed from Late Latin reālis. Doublet of reell.

• IPA^(key): /ʁeˈal/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

real (comparative realer, superlative am realsten)

1. that has physical existence; real
2. pertaining to reality; real, realistic

   Diese Geschichte ist nicht real.

   Sie ist ein kluges Mädchen; sie denkt real.

   reale Pläne

3. (economics) real (not nominal), measured in purchasing power

• (that has physical existence): echt, existent, bestehend, gegenständlich, dinglich

• sachlich, tatsächlich, wirklich

• real in Duden online

Borrowed from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis.

• riall, realle, reale, ryall, reall

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːal/, /ˈriːal/

real

1. (Late Middle English) real, true, factual
2. (Late Middle English, law) concerning possessions

• English: real
• Scots: real

• “rēal (adj.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

From Anglo-Norman reial, from Latin rēgālis.

real

1. Alternative form of ryal

real

1. Alternative form of ryal

real

1. Alternative form of ryal

From Old French real

real m (feminine singular reale, masculine plural reals, feminine plural reales)

1. royal; Alternative form of royal

From Latin realis

real (masculine and feminine real, neuter realt, definite singular and plural reale)

1. actual, real

• realfag

From Portuguese real, from Latin regalis

real m (definite singular realen, indefinite plural realer, definite plural realene)

1. the real, monetary unit of Brazil

• “real” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin realis

real (masculine and feminine real, neuter realt, definite singular and plural reale)

1. actual, real

• realfag

From Portuguese real, from Latin regalis

real m (definite singular realen, indefinite plural real or realar, definite plural realane)

1. the real, monetary unit of Brazil

• “real” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

real m (oblique and nominative feminine singular real or reale)

1. royal; Alternative form of roial
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     El palés real venu sont

     They came into the royal palace

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈaw/, [heˈaw], [xeˈaw], [reˈaw], [χeˈaw]
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁjaɫ/
• Hyphenation: re‧al

Borrowed from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“thing; possession”).

real m or f (plural reais, comparable)

1. true, real
2. that has physical existence; real
3. (mathematics, of a number) being a member of the set of real numbers; real

real m (plural reais)

1. a real number

• realidade, realismo, realista, realístico, realizar, realmente

Moeda brasileira de 1 real

From Latin rēgālis (“royal”), from rēx (“king”) + -alis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

real m or f (plural reais, comparable)

1. of or relating to the monarchy; royal; regal
2. having the air or demeanour of a monarch; regal

• realengo, realeza, rei, reino

real m (plural reais)

1. a former Spanish currency
2. the current Brazilian currency

real m (plural reais or réis)

1. a former currency of Portugal and its colonies (the plural later became réis)

• “real” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French réel, Late Latin reālis (“real, actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”)

• IPA^(key): [reˈal]

real m or n (feminine singular reală, masculine plural reali, feminine and neuter plural reale)

1. real

• nereal

• adevărat

• real in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• IPA^(key): /reˈal/
• Rhymes: -al

Borrowed from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”).

real (plural reales)

1. real

• verdadero
• existente

• irreal

• realidad
• realista
• realismo
• realizar

From Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”), from rēx. Cognate with English regal and royal.

real (plural reales)

1. royal

• regio

• plebeyo

real m (plural reales)

1. real (unit of currency)
2. (Spain, historical, colloquial) a quarter of a peseta

• → Arabic: ريال‎ (riyāl)
  • → Malagasy: ariary
    • → English: ariary
• → Irish: réal

• rey

• “real” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

real (not comparable)

1. objective, real, pertaining to real and physical objects

• saklig

real c

1. Clipping of realskola.
2. Clipping of realskoleexamen.
3. real (currency of Brazil and formerly Portugal)

• real in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)