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real world

[ ree-uhl, reel ]

noun

  1. 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.



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Other Words From

  • real-world adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of real world1

First recorded in 1960–65

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Example Sentences

Bratton might have said something that was closer to a real-world moral equivalence.

And, of course, it recommends keeping screen time limited, so as not to supplant other, real-world play and exploration.

In the real world, he said, a hacker is more likely interested in stealing records he can sell than in harming a patient.

When MTV first started airing The Real World, it was meant to expose the brutal truth about human nature.

Ed is a virgin with about as much real world experience as his pupils.

What children they were with their simple unmorality of artists, as ignorant of the real world as babes in a wood!

I love to lock my door upon the real world, and unbar the portals of my fairy palace—my thought-realm.

But the world, Auberon, the real world, is not run on these hobbies.

The real world lay between the covers of the Green and Gold Book—the real world and its people.

I found it comforting somehow, a reminder that there was a real world out there somewhere, beyond the walls.

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