regard

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English

Alternative forms

• regarde, reguard, reguarde (all obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
• Hyphenation: re‧gard
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

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.

Noun

regard (countable and uncountable, plural regards)

1. (countable) A steady look, a gaze. [from 15th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750:

     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. One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. [from 16th c.]
3. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]
4. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

Synonyms

• consideration, onlook, respect

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “concern for another”): neglect

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Verb

regard (third-person singular simple present regards, present participle regarding, simple past and past participle regarded)

1. (transitive) To look at; to observe. [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. [from 16th c.]
   • , [Act V, scene iv]:

     Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, / Your neece regards me with an eye of fauour.
3. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive) To face toward.
5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern. [from 17th c.]
6. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. [from 16th c.]

Synonyms

• (to look at): See Thesaurus:look
• (to consider): See Thesaurus:deem
• (to take notice of): See Thesaurus:pay attention

Antonyms

• ignore
• neglect

Derived terms

• regardable
• regarder
• regardless
• self-regard
• self-regarding

Translations

Anagrams

• Drager, Gerard, Grader, grader, red rag, redrag

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French regard, from Old French regard, from reguarder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ɡaʁ/

Noun

regard m (plural regards)

1. look, glance

   un regard en coin ― a side glance

2. (uncountable) sight, gaze, eyes
   • 1885, Loreau, Heriette (trans.), L’Ami commun (Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens), Part IV, chapter 10:

3. manhole

Derived terms

Related terms

• regarder

Descendants

• → Turkish: rögar

Further reading

• “regard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• garder, Gérard

Old French

Alternative forms

• regart, resgard, resgart, regarde

Noun

regard oblique singular, m (oblique plural regarz or regartz, nominative singular regarz or regartz, nominative plural regard)

1. look; observance; watching (act, instance of looking at)

Descendants

• Middle French: regard
  • → Middle English: regard, regarde
    • English: regard

References

• regard on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub