reality show

See also: Realityshow, reality-show, and Reality-Show

English

Noun

reality show (plural reality shows)

1. A reality television program.

Translations

a reality television program

• Catalan: programa de telerealitat m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 真人騷／真人骚 (zan1 jan4 sou1)

  Mandarin: 真人秀 (zh) (zhēnrénxiù)

• Finnish: tositelevisio-ohjelma
• French: émission de téléréalité f, reality show (fr) m, télévérité f
• Galician: programa de telerrealidade m
• German: Realityshow f
• Hungarian: valóságshow (hu)
• Indonesian: acara realitas
• Italian: reality (it) m, reality show (it) m
• Japanese: リアリティ番組 (riariti-bangumi), リアリティショー (riaritishō)
• Malay: rancangan realiti
• Polish: reality show (pl) m
• Portuguese: reality show (pt) m, reality (pt) m
• Russian: реа́лити-шо́у (ru) n (reáliti-šóu)
• Spanish: programa de telerrealidad m, reality (es) m, reality show (es) f
• Swedish: dokusåpa (sv) c

Further reading

• reality television on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English reality show.

Noun

reality show m (plural reality shows)

1. (television) reality show (a reality television program)

   Synonym: reality

Further reading

• reality show in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• reality show in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• reality show in Dizionario di Italiano online - La Repubblica

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reality show.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈa.li.ti ˈʂɔw/

Noun

reality show m inan (indeclinable)

1. (television) reality show

Further reading

• reality show in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• reality show in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reality show.

Noun

reality show m (plural reality shows)

1. (television) reality show (a reality television program)

Further reading

• “reality show” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “reality show” in Dicionário inFormal.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reality show.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˌaliti ˈʃou/ [reˌa.li.t̪i ˈʃou̯]

Noun

reality show m (plural reality shows)

1. (television) reality show (a reality television program)

   Synonyms: reality, programa de telerrealidad

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “reality show”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “show reality show” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.