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Regard

//ɹɪˈɡɑːd// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A steady look, a gaze. countable

    "He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead."

  2. 2
    Filter-avoidance spelling of retard. Internet, euphemistic
  3. 3
    a long fixed look wordnet
  4. 4
    One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) wordnet
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  1. 6
    A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. countable, uncountable

    "This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]"

  2. 7
    (usually preceded by ‘in’) a detail or point wordnet
  3. 8
    The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. uncountable

    "Dolph. For the Dolphin, I stand here for him: what to him from England? Exe. Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not mis-become The mightie Sender, doth he prize you at."

  4. 9
    an attitude of admiration or esteem wordnet
  5. 10
    (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare wordnet
  6. 11
    a feeling of friendship and esteem wordnet
  7. 12
    the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To look at; to observe. transitive

    "She regarded us warily."

  2. 2
    deem to be wordnet
  3. 3
    To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. transitive

    "I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil."

  4. 4
    look at attentively wordnet
  5. 5
    To take notice of, pay attention to. archaic, transitive

    "If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not."

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  1. 6
    connect closely and often incriminatingly wordnet
  2. 7
    To face toward. transitive

    "Seated on a peninſula which regardeth the maine land ; ſtrong by nature, and fortified by Art : adorned heretofore with magnificent buildings ; and numbered amongſt the paradiſes of the earth, for temperate aire, and delightfull ſituation."

  3. 8
    To have to do with, to concern. transitive

    "That argument does not regard the question."

  4. 9
    To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. obsolete, transitive

    "Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Piecewise doublet of reward; compare also guard, ward, guardian, and so on.

Etymology 2

From Middle English regarden, from Old French regarder, reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.

Etymology 3

Popularized about 2022 along with regarded.

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