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real¹

  • /ɹiːl/ Australia, UK
  • /ˈɹiː.əl/ Australia, UK
  • /ɹɪl/ Australia, UK
  • [ɹɪɫ] Australia, UK
  • /ɹɪj(ə)l/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ɹɪj(ə)ɫ] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈɹi.əl/ Canada, US
  • /ɹil/ Canada, US
  • /ɹɪl/ Canada, US
  • [ɹɪɫ] Canada, US
  • /ɾil/ Scotland
  • /ɾi.əl/ Scotland
  • /ɾiːl/ Wales
  • /ɾiː.əl/ Wales
  • /rɪjəl/ South Asia

Sounds like reel (some accents) · Rhymes with -iːəl, -iːl

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís

Proto-Italic *reis

Classical Latin rēs

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Late Latin reālisder.

Old French reelbor.

Middle English real

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 realis. In modern times, likely strengthened by or conflated with the use of the prefix re-, analyzable as re- + -al.

adjective realer · more real · realest · most real

  1. True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent. City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town.
  2. Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake. This is real leather.
  3. Genuine, unfeigned, sincere. These are real tears!
  4. Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary. a description of real life
  5. That has objective, physical existence. No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
  6. 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.
  7. Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
  8. 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. Relating to immovable tangible property. real estate; real property
  10. Absolute, complete, utter. This is a real problem.
  11. slang Signifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true success rather than poser imitations of success. I'm keeping it real.
  12. slang Firm through directness, readiness to confront. yo, Imma be real with u... don't ever text me again

Similar: true, actual, authentic, genuine, heartfelt, true, actual, based

adverb

  1. US, colloquial, not comparable Really; very. When I told him the truth, he got real mad.

noun reals

  1. A commodity; see realty.
  2. One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
  3. A real number. 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
  4. obsolete A realist. Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals

real²

  • /ɹeɪˈɑːl/ UK
  • /ɹeɪˈɑl/ US

Rhymes with -ɑːl, -ɑl

Where it comes from

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

noun reals · reales

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

real³

  • /ɹeɪˈɑːl/ UK
  • /ɹeɪˈɑl/ US

Rhymes with -ɑːl, -ɑl

Where it comes from

From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.

noun reis · réis · reals

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

noun reais · reals

  1. A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$. 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. countable A coin worth one real.

Real⁴

proper noun

  1. Real Madrid, a football club from Madrid.
  2. A surname.
  3. A municipality of the province of Quezon, Philippines.

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