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- [ree-uh l, reel wurld]
- /ˈri əl, ril wɜrld/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ree-uh l, reel wurld]
- /ˈri əl, ril wɜrld/
Definitions of real world words
- noun real world the realm of practical or actual experience, as opposed to the abstract, theoretical, or idealized sphere of the classroom, laboratory, etc.: recent college graduates looking for jobs in the real world of rising unemployment. 1
- noun real world reality 1
- noun Technical meaning of real world 1. Those institutions at which "programming" may be used in the same sentence as "Fortran", "COBOL", "RPG", "IBM", "DBASE", etc. Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices. 2. The location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming. 3. A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5 (see code grinder). 4. Anywhere outside a university. "Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the Real World." Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the Real World is not unlike speaking of a deceased person. It is also noteworthy that on the campus of Cambridge University in England, there is a gaily-painted lamp-post which bears the label "REALITY CHECKPOINT". It marks the boundary between university and the Real World; check your notions of reality before passing. This joke is funnier because the Cambridge "campus" is actually coextensive with the centre of Cambridge. See also fear and loathing, mundane, uninteresting. 1
- singular noun real world If you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic. 0
- adjective real world in, from, or having to do with actual experience or practice, rather than being theoretical, idealistic, or impractical 0
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Origin of real world
First appearance:
before 1960 One of the 3% newest English words
First recorded in 1960-65
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Real world
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adjective
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real world popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 42% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 68% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
real world usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for real world
noun real world
- absoluteness — the quality of being absolute
- actuality — Actuality is the state of really existing rather than being imagined.
- big game — Large wild animals such as lions and elephants that are hunted for sport are often referred to as big game.
- concreteness — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
Antonyms for real world
noun real world
- cloud cuckoo land — an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland: the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.
- dreamland — a pleasant, lovely land that exists only in dreams or the imagination; the region of reverie.
- land of nod — the mythical land of sleep.
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