real
adjective
1 actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed: Julius Caesar was a real person | a story drawing on real events | her many illnesses, real and imaginary.
2 (of a substance or thing) not imitation or artificial; genuine: the earring was presumably real gold.
3 [ attrib. ] informal complete; utter (used for emphasis): the tour turned out to be a real disaster.
4 [ attrib. ] adjusted for changes in the value of money; assessed by purchasing power: real incomes had fallen by 30 percent | an increase in real terms of 11.6 percent.
5 Law of fixed property (i.e., land and buildings), as distinct from personal property: he lost nearly all of his real holdings.
6 Mathematics (of a number or quantity) having no imaginary part. See imaginary.
7 Optics (of an image) of a kind in which the light that forms it actually passes through it; not virtual.
spider
noun
1 an eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs that inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects. [Order Araneae, class Arachnida.]
2 an object resembling a spider, especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes.
3 Computing another term for crawler (sense 2)
They are real in the sense that they have been created, they are no longer imagined. Some people might argue that the spiders aren’t living, but that doesn’t make them less real. The war might not have really killed people, but the war did take place, in the movie. Review the definition of war.
war
noun
a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state: Japan declared war on Germany | the two countries had been at war for six years.
verb (wars, warring, warred) [ no obj. ]
engage in a war: small states warred against each other | figurative : conflicting emotions warred within her.