(rē′əl, rēl) adjective
1. Having existence or actuality as a thing or state; not imaginary: a real event.
2. Being in accordance with appearance or claim; genuine; not artificial or counterfeit.
3. Representing the true or actual, as opposed to the apparent or ostensible: the real reason.
4. Unaffected; unpretentious: a real person.
5. Philos. Having actual existence, and not merely possible, apparent, or imaginary.
6. Law a Of, pertaining to, or consisting of land and tenements: real property, as contrasted with personal property. b Pertaining to things, as distinguished from persons.
—noun That which is real; a real thing.
—adverb Colloq. Very; extremely: to be real glad. [<OF <Med. L realis <L res thing]
—re′al·ness noun

(rē′əl, Sp. rā·äl′) noun
1. plural re·als or re·a·les (rā·ä′lās) A small silver coin of several Spanish countries, including Mexico, and formerly current in the United States, where it was called a bit, and had the value of 12½ cents.
2. plural reis (rās) A former Portuguese and Brazilian coin; one thousandth of a milreis. [<Sp., lit., royal <L regalis]