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real1 1. Philosophy existent or relating to actual existence (as opposed to nonexistent, potential, contingent, or apparent) 2. Economics (of prices, incomes, wages, etc.) considered in terms of purchasing power rather than nominal currency value 3. denoting or relating to immovable property such as land and tenements 4. Physics See image 5. Maths involving or containing real numbers alone; having no imaginary part 6. Music a. (of the answer in a fugue) preserving the intervals as they appear in the subject b. denoting a fugue as having such an answer 7. short for real number real2 a former small Spanish or Spanish-American silver coin real3 the standard monetary unit of Brazil, divided into 100 centavos 2. a former coin of Portugal
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There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she must be a real Princess. "Those," they explained, "will be cheaper than real ones. First and always in considering any piece of literature a student should ask himself the question already implied: Does it present a true portrayal of life--of the permanent elements in all life and in human nature, of the life or thought of its own particular period, and (in most sorts of books) of the persons, real or imaginary, with whom it deals? |
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