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reais

reais is the plural of real.

Meaning of real

Noun (1)

real (plural reals)

  1. A commodity; see realty.
  2. One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
  3. A real number.
    • There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions...2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11
  4. (obsolete) A realist.
    • Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

Noun (2)

real (plural reals or reales)

  1. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
  2. A coin worth one real.

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Questions about reais

What is reais the plural of?
Reais is the plural of real.

Words near reais in the dictionary

  1. reaims
  2. reair
  3. reaired
  4. reairing
  5. reairs
  6. reais
  7. reak
  8. reaks
  9. real
  10. real ale
  11. real ales

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