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English
Pronunciation
Noun
real life (countable and uncountable, plural real lives)
- Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.
- A person or thing that exists in reality (vs. fictional).
2011, Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy, Take Two:I knew it was just a silly quiz, but it was annoying that I couldn't even get a crush match in a magazine—or real life.
- (by extension, sometimes capitalized) Life outside the Internet.
- (by extension) Pressing day-to-day commitments.
I kept meaning to look for a better-paying job, but real life intervened.
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life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 現實生活/现实生活 (xiànshí shēnghuó), 真實生命/真实生命 (zhēnshí shēngmìng)
- Dutch: het echte leven
- Finnish: tosielämä, todellisuus (fi)
- French: vie réelle (fr) f, vraie vie (fr) f
- German: wirkliches Leben n, Reallife (de) n
- Greek: πραγματικότητα (el) (pragmatikótita)
- Hungarian: való élet
- Icelandic: raunveruleiki (is) m
- Italian: vita reale f
- Japanese: 実生活 (じっせいかつ, jisseikatsu), 実際の生活 (じっさいのせいかつ, jissai no seikatsu)
- Korean: 리얼라이프 (rieollaipeu)
- Polish: życie (pl) n, (literally) prawdziwe życie (pl) n, real (pl) m
- Portuguese: vida real f
- Romanian: viața reală
- Russian: реа́льная жизнь f (reálʹnaja žiznʹ), реа́л (ru) m (reál)
- Spanish: vida real f
- Swedish: verkliga livet n
- Thai: ชีวิตจริง
- Turkish: gerçek hayat
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