reals
SayREELZUS/ɹilz//ɹiːlz/
- 1Plural of real.
The sailor traded a handful of reals for fresh fruit at the port.
Old ledgers listed prices in reals long before the new currency arrived.
Note
One spelling serves several unrelated plurals. In a ledger or a sailor's purse it means Spanish coins, the old currency of Spain and its colonies, and English gives them the regular -s rather than Spanish reales. In mathematics, the reals are the real numbers taken as a set. Grammarians of the Scandinavian languages use it for genders, and older texts may mean realists.
reals 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 → reals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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