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real live concert

real live concert

2.8
A music show you go to in person
  • noun
translation icon : concierto en vivo
  • After two years of cancellations, it felt amazing to be at a real live concert again.

Examples

  • Many fans prefer the energy of a real live concert over watching virtual performances online.

  • Tickets for the real live concert sold out within minutes of going on sale.

  • I can't wait to attend a real live concert this summer!

  • Have you ever been to a real live concert?

  • After two years of cancellations, it felt amazing to be at a real live concert again.

  • Many fans prefer the energy of a real live concert over watching virtual performances online.

  • Tickets for the real live concert sold out within minutes of going on sale.

Synonyms

concert
vsreal live concert
656 1.8

A live music performance for people to hear

is an in person musical event rather than recorded or virtual
live
vsreal live concert
342 3.2

At the same time as it is seen or heard

is specifically an in person performance not only simultaneous broadcast
live music
vsreal live concert
28 1.6

Music played in front of people, not from a recording

is an explicitly in person event rather than recorded or virtual
musical performance
vsreal live concert
4 3.2

A live show where musicians play music for an audience

is specifically an in person event rather than recorded or virtual

Antonyms

2.6

Put on tape, film, or digital media to keep and play later

How Live

real live concert
2.8
live music
28 1.6
concert
656 1.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

real + live + concert

The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'real' (genuine, actual) + 'live' (performed in person / happening now) + 'concert' (music performance); together they clearly signal an in-person event as opposed to a recorded or virtual one. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English adjective+noun combination, so a B1 learner who knows the words will readily infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

Real live concert comes from the need to say the show is happening right then in front of people, not a recording or online event. Here live gives the image of music played 'in the moment' and real shows it is truly 'in-person', so the phrase means an actual, in-person musical performance.