real (rē′əl, rēl)

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.)

noun

anything that actually exists, or reality in general: with the