real

  1. Proper noun.  Real Madrid, a football club from Madrid.
  2. Noun.  A commodity; ''see'' reality.
  3. Noun.  (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics) A real number.
  5. Adjective.  That can be characterized as a confirmation of truth.
  6. Adjective.  That has physical existence.
  7. Adjective.  (economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; ''contrasted with'' nominal.
  8. Adjective.  (economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
  9. Adjective.  (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.
  10. Adjective.  (legal) Relating to immovable tangible property.
  11. Adjective.  That is an exemplary or pungent instance of a class or type.
  12. Adjective.  genuine, not faked or substituted.
  13. Adjective.  Genuine, not artificial.
  14. Adjective.  (slang) Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially in regards to enjoying life, prowess at sports and success wooing potential partners.
  15. Adverb.  (US) (colloquial) really.
  16. Noun.  Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
  17. Noun.  A unit of currency used in Brazil, and formerly in Portugal.
  18. Noun.  A coin worth one real.

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