real/existing

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being alive LIVE
- to be real; to live: exist; noun (U): existence
Scientists say that the earth has existed for about four billion years. ◎ Do you think UFOs really exist? ◎ All these jobs will cease to exist after April. ◎ This is the oldest piece of writing in existence.
- not existing: non-existent
In those days health care was virtually non-existent.
- to begin to exist: come* into being, come* into existence
The National Health Service in Britain came into being in 1946. ◎ This word came into existence around the turn of the last century.
- to continue to exist: persist; noun (U): persistence
If these symptoms persist, you'll have to go and see the doctor. ◎ the persistence of cholera among the poorest members of the community
- to continue to exist or to live (often in spite of a dangerous or difficult situation): survive; noun (U): survival; a person or thing that survives: survivor
a traditional way of life that is unlikely to survive in the modern world ◎ a long struggle for survival
※—† real or imaginary
- actually existing, not imaginary: real (adverb really); noun (u): reality
The story in the film is based on real life. ◎ It really was a ghost; I'm absolutely sure of it. ◎ Some experts dispute the reality of global warming.
- life as most people live it, not as in fiction or in films: real life (noun U)
Nobody speaks like that in real life. ◎ The film is about real-life situations.
- a description, film, book, etc that shows how people really live is true to life, realistic; noun (U): realism
a true to life portrait of an industrial town ◎ a realistic description of the lives of ordinary people in London
- something that you know has happened or is true: fact
It's a fact that people live longer nowadays. ◎ You just have to face facts and accept that she has left you for another man.
- if sth is based on situations or events that have not yet happened, it is hypothetical
a hypothetical question/situation/event
- if a person or thing is not real and exists only in the mind, it is imaginary; to think of sth that is imaginary: imagine sth; the ability to do this: imagination (noun U)
an imaginary world in which pain does not exist ◎ Imagine what it would be like to have no friends. ◎ Her writing shows wonderful originality and imagination.
※ more on imagination IMAGINATION
※—† no longer existing
- if a type of animal or plant no longer exists, it is extinct; noun (U): extinction
This type of butterfly is almost extinct in some parts of England. ◎ to be in danger of extinction
- to cease to exist: die out, disappear, become* extinct
This species of tiger has almost died out. ◎ disappearing wildlife ◎ Thousands of species are becoming extinct every year.
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- if sth exists only as an idea and not as a real thing, it is abstract; opposite: concrete
abstract ideas ◎ a concrete object