Real

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: re=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

Real, n. [Sp., fr. real royal, L. regalis. See Regal, and cf. Ree a coin.].

 A former small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.  [1913 Webster]
" A real of plate (coin) varied in value according to the time of its coinage, from 12real vellon, or money of account, was nearly equal to five cents, or 2"  [1913 Webster]

Real, a. 

 Royal; regal; kingly.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

Real, a. [LL. realis, fr. L. res, rei, a thing: cf. F. réel. Cf. Rebus.].

•  Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whereat I waked, and found
  Before mine eyes all real, as the dream
  Had lively shadowed."  [1913 Webster]
•  True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whose perfection far excelled
  Hers in all real dignity."  [1913 Webster]
•  Relating to things, not to persons.  [1913 Webster]

  "Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business."  [1913 Webster]
•  Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.  [1913 Webster]

  "For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
  Contracts the danger of an actual fault."  [1913 Webster]

  "Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the reality of things."  [1913 Webster]

Chattels real (Law), such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel. -- Real action (Law), an action for the recovery of real property. -- Real assets (Law), lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor. -- Real composition (Eccl. Law), an agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. Blackstone. -- Real estate or Real property, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land. Kent. Burrill. -- Real presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation. -- Real servitude, called also Predial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier.

Syn. -- Actual; true; genuine; authentic.

Real, n. 

 A realist.  Burton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Real, adj. & adv.
--adj.
1 actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact.
2 genuine; rightly so called; not artificial or merely apparent.
3 Law consisting of or relating to immovable property such as land or houses (real estate) (cf. personal property).
4 appraised by purchasing power; adjusted for changes in the value of money (real value; income in real terms).
5 Philos. having an absolute and necessary and not merely contingent existence.
6 Math. (of a quantity) having no imaginary part (see IMAGINARY 2).
7 Optics (of an image etc.) such that light actually passes through it.
--adv. Sc. & US colloq. really, very.

Idiom

for real colloq. as a serious or actual concern; in earnest. real ale beer regarded as brewed in a traditional way, with secondary fermentation in the cask. real life that lived by actual people, as distinct from fiction, drama, etc. real live (attrib.) often joc. actual; not pretended or simulated (a real live burglar). the real McCoy see MCCOY. real money current coin or notes; cash. real tennis the original form of tennis played on an indoor court. the real thing (of an object or emotion) genuine, not inferior. real time the actual time during which a process or event occurs. real-time (attrib.) Computing (of a system) in which the response time is of the order of milliseconds, e.g. in an airline booking system.

Derivative

realness n.

Real, n. hist. a former coin and monetary unit of various Spanish-speaking countries.

Etymology

Sp., noun use of real (adj.) (as ROYAL)

THESAURUS

Real

Gaussian integer, absolute, actual, admitting no question, algebraic number, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, almighty, appreciable, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated, awfully, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, cardinal, cardinal number, categorically true, certain, certified, complex number, concrete, confirmable, confirmed, corporeal, corroborated, de facto, decimal, defective number, demonstrable, demonstratable, demonstrated, determined, differential, digital, dinkum, documentary, earnest, effectual, essential, established, even, even number, exceedingly, existent, exponential, factual, feodal, feudal, feudatory, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, finite number, following the letter, for real, fraction, fractional, genuine, good, heartfelt, historical, honest, honest-to-God, imaginary, imaginary number, impair, impossible, inappealable, inartificial, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, infinite, infinity, integer, integral, intrinsic, irrational, irrational number, irrefragable, irrefutable, just, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, lifelike, literal, logarithmic, logometric, loyal, manorial, material, mightily, mighty, mixed number, natural, naturalistic, negative, not in error, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, objectively true, odd, official, only too, ordinal, original, pair, palpable, physical, polygonal number, ponderable, positive, possible, powerful, powerfully, praedial, pretty, prime, prime number, proper, provable, proved, pure, pure imaginary, quite, radical, rational, rational number, real number, realistic, really, reciprocal, rectangular number, right, rightful, round number, seigneurial, seignioral, self-evident, sensible, serial number, simon-pure, simple, sincere, so, solid, sterling, submultiple, substantial, substantiated, substantive, surd, sure-enough, tangible, terribly, terrifically, testable, transcendental, transcendental number, transfinite number, true, true as gospel, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, trusted, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unanswerable, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, unconfutable, unconfuted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeniable, undenied, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undoubted, unerroneous, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfallacious, unfalse, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, uninvented, unlikely, unmistaken, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable, unrefutable, unrefuted, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, validated, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verifiable, verified, verisimilar, veritable, very, whole number, word-for-word

ROGET THESAURUS

Real

Existence

N existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality, positiveness, fact, matter of fact, sober reality, truth, actual existence, presence, coexistence, stubborn fact, hard fact, not a dream, no joke, center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle, ontology, existing, existent, under the sun, in existence, extant, afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent, undestroyed, real, actual, positive, absolute, true, substantial, substantive, self-existing, self-existent, essential, well-founded, well-grounded, unideal, unimagined, not potential, authentic, actually, in fact, in point of fact, in reality, indeed, de facto, ipso facto, ens rationis, ergo sum cogito, thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?.

Number

N number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer, counter, round number, formula, function, series, sum, difference, complement, subtrahend, product, multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator, coefficient, multiple, dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction, rational number, surd, irrational number, transcendental number, mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate, numerator, denominator, decimal, circulating decimal, repetend, common measure, aliquot part, prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair, reciprocal, totient, binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number, permutation, combination, variation, election, ratio, proportion, comparison, progression, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression, percentage, permilage, figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers, power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm, modulus, base, differential, integral, fluxion, fluent, numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable, proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive, positive, negative, rational, irrational, surd, radical, real, complex, imaginary, finite, infinite, impossible, numerically, modulo.

Truth

N truth, fact, reality, plain fact, plain matter of fact, nature, truth, verity, gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth, orthodoxy, authenticity, veracity, correctness, correctitude, accuracy, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, delicacy, rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality, clockwork precision, conformity to rule, nicety, orthology, ipsissima verba, realism, plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth, nuda veritas, the very thing, not an illusion, real Simon Pure, unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, just the thing, real, actual, veritable, true, right, correct, certain, substantially true, categorically true, definitively true, true to the letter, true as gospel, unimpeachable, veracious, unreconfuted, unconfuted, unideal, unimagined, realistic, exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so, strict, severe, close, literal, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific, faithful, constant, unerring, curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine, clean-cut, clear-cut, verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated), rigorously true, unquestionably true, true by definition, genuine, authentic, legitimate, orthodox, official, ex officio, pure, natural, sound, sterling, unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored, in its true colors, pukka, well-grounded, well founded, solid, substantial, tangible, valid, undistorted, undisguised, unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering, truly, verily, indeed, really, in reality, with truth, certainly, actually, in effect, exactly, ad amussim, verbatim, verbatim et literatim, word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis, ad unguem, to an inch, to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T, au pied de la lettre, neither more nor less, in every respect, in all respects, sous tous les rapports, at any rate, at all events, strictly speaking, the truth is, the fact is, rem acu tetigisti, en suivant la verite, ex facto jus oritur, la verita e figlia del empo, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, crazy people and children tell the truth, nihil est veritatis luce dulcius, veritas nunquam perit, veritatem dies aperit, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.