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Real can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective.

real used as an adverb:

  1. really.

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

real used as a noun:

  1. A commodity; see reality.
  2. One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
  3. A real number.
  4. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
  5. A unit of currency used in Brazil, and formerly in Portugal.
  6. A coin worth one real.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

real used as an adjective:

  1. That can be characterized as a confirmation of truth.
  2. That has physical existence.
    "No one has ever seen a real unicorn."
  3. Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with nominal.
    "My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month."
  4. Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
  5. Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
  6. (family) Related through a common ancestor, and not merely by marriage or adoption.
    "real father or real mother"
  7. Relating to immovable tangible property.
    "real estate"
  8. That is an exemplary or pungent instance of a class or type.
    "This is a real problem."
  9. genuine, not faked.
    "These are real tears!"
  10. Genuine, not artificial.
    "This is real leather."
  11. Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially in regards to enjoying life, prowess at sports and success wooing potential partners.
    "I'm keeping it real."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

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What type of word is real?

As detailed above, 'real' can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
  2. Adjective usage: My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
  3. Adjective usage: What is the real GNP of this polity?
  4. Adjective usage: real father or real mother
  5. Adjective usage: real estate
  6. Adjective usage: real property
  7. Adjective usage: This is a real problem.
  8. Adjective usage: Some say he is a real hero.
  9. Adjective usage: These are real tears!
  10. Adjective usage: This is real leather.
  11. Adjective usage: I'm keeping it real.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of real are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of real, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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