adjective

1. existing or happening as or in fact; actual, true, etc.; not merely seeming, pretended, imagined, fictitious, nominal, or ostensible
2. 1. authentic; genuine
   2. not pretended; sincere
3. designating wages or income as measured by purchasing power
4. Law of or relating to permanent, immovable things real property
5. Math. designating or of the part of a complex number that is not imaginary: all irrational and rational numbers are real numbers
6. Optics of or relating to an image made by the actual meeting of light rays at a point
7. Philos. existing objectively; actual (not merely possible or ideal), or essential, absolute, ultimate (not relative, derivative, etc.)

Etymology: OFr < ML realis < L res, thing < IE base *rei-, property, thing > Sans rai, wealth, property

noun

adverb

noun pl. reals re′·als or reales re·al′es (re ä′les)

Etymology: Sp & Port, lit., royal < L regalis: see regal

noun

1. reis
2. pl. reais re·ais′

   Etymology: Port: see real

   the basic monetary unit of Brazil