real life

See also real-life

English

Noun

Wikipedia real life (plural real lives)

1. Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.
2. (by extension, sometimes capitalized) Life outside the Internet.
3. (by extension) Pressing day-to-day commitments: real life intervened.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現實生活 (cmn), 现实生活 (cmn) (xiànshí shēnghuó), 真實生命 (cmn), 真实生命 (cmn) (zhēnshí shēngmìng)

• Dutch: het echte leven (nl)
• Finnish: tosielämä (fi)
• French: vie réelle (fr) f
• German: wirkliches Leben (de) n
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (el) (pragmatikótita) 

• Hungarian: való élet (hu)
• Japanese: 実生活 (ja) (じっせいかつ, jisseikatsu), 実際の生活 (ja) (じっさいのせいかつ, jissai-no seikatsu)
• Polish: życie (pl) n, (literally) prawdziwe życie (pl) n
• Portuguese: vida real (pt) f
• Russian: реальная жизнь (ru) (reál'naja žizn') f 
• Spanish: vida real (es) f
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Adjective

real life (not comparable)

1. Not fictional; actually happening or capable of happening.

Alternative forms

• real-life

Related terms

• real world
• meatspace