real world

1. 1.

   the practical world as opposed to the academic world

   “a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world”

   Synonymsreal life

   Broaderworld

Questions about real world

What does real world mean?

real world means "the practical world as opposed to the academic world".

What is another word for real world?

Close synonyms include real life. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is real world a common word?

real world is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.