Sekirov Dictionary

regard

UK /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/US /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/

verb 6
noun 5
forms 5

verb6

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to see someone or something as having a certain quality or nature
- 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.
•
To look at; to observe.
- She regarded us warily.
•
To have to do with, to concern.
- That argument does not regard the question.
To face toward.
•
(no longer used) To take notice of, pay attention to.
- If much you note him / You shall offend him, and extend his Passion, / Feed, and regard him not. — 1606
•
(no longer used) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
- Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man. — 1526

noun5

One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.
•
A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
- This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […] — 1842
•
The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
- He is held in great regard in Whitehall.
•
A steady look, a gaze.
- 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. — 1982
(Internet, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of retard.

forms

regarded · regarding · regardeth · regards · regardest

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