reales
- 1Plural of real.
The merchant counted out twenty reales onto the worn wooden counter.
Smugglers along the coast traded in silver reales to avoid the royal tax.
Note
A Spanish plural kept in English: the singular ends in a consonant, so Spanish adds -es rather than a bare -s. It belongs to the money, meaning the former currency of Spain and its colonies and the coin worth one real, so it suits writing about merchants, smugglers and colonial trade. English writers sometimes anglicize it to reals, and the -es form stays with the coin, not with a real number or a realist.
reales is a form of real
real, noun: Any number lying on the continuous number line, including whole numbers, fractions, and irrational quantities. Full entry
- Spelling
- real → reales: add -es
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