Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Objects, such as coins, household items, or natural specimens, that are included in a collection primarily composed of documentary materials, as in a library.
- noun plural Objects drawn from real life that are used in classroom instruction.
- noun plural Images or illustrations that represent such objects, especially in a textbook.
- noun plural Real things or facts, especially in contrast to interpretations or idealized representations of them.
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- noun Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to
theoretical constructs orfabricated examples.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Feltboards have been replaced in many classrooms by computer screens, but nothing can compare to the hands-on, tactile fun of soft, colorful flannel. literacy is power « realia
Literacy News from Digg – 22th Edition « Digg.com Digest « Digests « Literacy News 2009
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Fictive artworks have clearly fictional elements but extend outside the realm of the purely fictive in various ways, principally through the creation of realia.
Archive 2008-02-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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In many classes kids do not get to share recipes, realia, stories from their countries, and so forth.
GUEST POST 14 – Shelly Terrell on Children of Immigrants « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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Fictive artworks have clearly fictional elements but extend outside the realm of the purely fictive in various ways, principally through the creation of realia.
Pataphysics and Fictive Art Heather McDougal 2008
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Many legal discussions concerning the appearance of the signs of puberty are based in medical realia, including the relationship between weight, labor, personal and familial tendencies and puberty.
Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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At seven months after conception, the fetus is considered to be viable, although from the point of view of realia, this was unlikely in antiquity.
Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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He sees highways covered in cars and trucks, airports, runways, large cities, expansive modern ports, and other such realia.
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Whatever the strength or weakness of Boardman's particular hunches, he certainly makes one aware of two things: the need of the Greeks to seek every way of connecting with their heroic but largely vanished past, and the obvious recourse that would have been offered them by physical realia (objects from everyday life), naturalia (objects from the natural world), and artificia (art objects and technological artifacts) surviving from that past.
Looking for the Lost Greeks Wills, Garry 2003
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Universalia sunt realia, was readily capable of extension far beyond the Church, and William of Champeaux himself carried it to the extent of arguing that nothing is real but the universal.
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Intrepid forays into realia and texts of the Ancient Near East, by Duane Smith
johnmperry commented on the word realia
Term from teaching (EFL for instance), meaning actual real-world material brought into the classroom.
July 16, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word realia
I've always understood them as culture-specific things.
July 16, 2008
avivamagnolia commented on the word realia
~ Realia is a term used in library science and education to refer to certain real-life objects.
~ In education, realia include objects used by educators to improve students' understanding of other cultures and real life situations. A teacher of a foreign language often employs realia to strengthen students' associations between words for everyday objects and the objects themselves.
~ In library classification systems, realia are objects such as coins, tools, and textiles that do not easily fit into the orderly categories of printed material. Wikipedia
January 18, 2009
rolig commented on the word realia
This is also a useful term in writing about literature to refer to phenomena that enter a fictional or poetic text but derive from the common everyday life of the intended readership, for example, references to nailclippers or McDonald's. I first encountered it in Russian, as реали�? (realiya), when I was studying Russian literature, so I am not certain it is widely used in English-language literary criticism. But it ought to be.
January 18, 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word realia
pronunciation?
December 15, 2015