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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, derogatory, idiomatic, sometimes, uncountable
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Synonyms: fleshspace, IRL, offline, real life
Antonyms: cyberspace
History
From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag.
Across languages
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