regard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: regards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: regarde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: reguard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: reguarde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: regards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: regarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: regarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: regarded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: regarde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: reguard
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: reguarde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A steady look, a gaze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]
We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard […]
These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.
gloss: The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
He is held in great regard in Whitehall.
gloss: To look at; to observe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She regarded us warily.
And They made the Moon, with his face wrinkled with many mountains and worn with a thousand valleys, to regard with pale eyes the games of the small gods, and to watch throughout the resting time of Māna-Yood-Sushāī; to watch, to regard all things, and be silent.
gloss: To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.
He regards honesty as a duty, but was regarded himself as (being) rather dangerous by the police.
She regarded her pets as an extension of the family.
I regard such a way of life with distaste.
Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, / Your neece regards me with an eye of fauour.
His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness, which, in spite of their admiration of his writings, was not unmixed with contempt.
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
gloss: To take notice of, pay attention to.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not.
I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.
gloss: To face toward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
We pass’d by[…]that exceedingly beautifull scate of my Lord Pembroke, on yᵉ ascent of an hill, flank’d with wood, and reguarding the river ; and so at night to Cadenham, yᵉ mansion of Ed. Hungerford, Esq.
gloss: To have to do with, to concern.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That argument does not regard the question.
My lords, the question thus proposed by your lordships to the Judges must be admitted by all persons to be a question of great importance, as it regards the administration of justice.
gloss: To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.
Suppoſe they be in number infinit,
Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline,
All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles:
And more regarding gaine than victorie: […]
Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
Synonyms: consideration
onlook
respect
Antonyms: neglect
Derived words: court of regard
disregard
in regard
in regard of
in regard to
irregardful
regardful
regard ring
with regard to
misregard
regardable
regarder
regardless
self-regard
self-regarding
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отнасям се
roman: otnasjam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: касая
roman: kasaja
lang: Finnish
word: koskea
lang: French
word: concerner
lang: French
word: regarder
lang: German
word: betreffen
lang: Italian
word: riguardare
lang: Italian
word: concernere
lang: Portuguese
word: concernir
lang: Portuguese
word: referir
lang: Spanish
word: tratar
lang: Spanish
word: concernir