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Definition of Real life
1. Noun. The practical world as opposed to the academic world. "A good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world"
Definition of Real life
1. Noun. Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama. ¹
2. Noun. (by extension sometimes capitalized) Life outside the Internet. ¹
3. Noun. (by extension) Pressing day-to-day commitments: ''real life intervened''. ¹
4. Adjective. Not fictional; actually happening or capable of happening. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Real Life
Literary usage of Real life
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... than a real life. Few of our writers have excelled De Foe in this kind of
biographical narration, the great qualities of which are, to attract by the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Men do not talk in blank verse in real life, nor utter their inmost thoughts in
stage " asides," meant to be heard by the back rows of a distant audience, ..."
3. Shakspere and His Forerunners: Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its by Sidney Lanier (1902)
"Every drama must of necessity always differ enormously rom real life, because in
the drama the action must be mainly >ld by the words of the dramatis ..."
4. Shakspere and His Forerunners: Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its by Sidney Lanier, Henry Wysham Lanier (1908)
"Every drama must of necessity always differ enormously from real life, because
in the drama the action must be mainly told by the words of the dramatis ..."
5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"Nay, " real" in the phrase "real life" is itself a wholly treacherous and 1
This (chap, xvi., not long after the mother tongue. But it shows know- beginning ..."
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