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regard¹

  • /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/ UK
  • /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/ Canada, US
  • /ɹɪˈɡɐːd/ Australia
  • /ɹəˈɡɐːd/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d

Where it comes from

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.

noun regards · regarde · reguard · reguarde

  1. countable 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.
  2. countable, uncountable One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.
  3. countable, uncountable A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]
  4. uncountable The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. 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.

Similar: consideration, onlook, respect

regard²

  • /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/ UK
  • /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/ Canada, US
  • /ɹɪˈɡɐːd/ Australia
  • /ɹəˈɡɐːd/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d

Where it comes from

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

verb regards · regarding · regarded · regarde · reguard

  1. transitive To look at; to observe. She regarded us warily.
  2. transitive To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.
  3. archaic, transitive 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.
  4. transitive To face toward. 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.
  5. transitive To have to do with, to concern. That argument does not regard the question.
  6. obsolete, transitive 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.

regard³

  • /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/ UK
  • /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/ Canada, US
  • /ɹɪˈɡɐːd/ Australia
  • /ɹəˈɡɐːd/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d

Where it comes from

Popularized about 2022 along with regarded.

noun regards · regarde · reguard · reguarde

  1. Internet, euphemistic Filter-avoidance spelling of retard.

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