REGARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regard mean? 

• REGARD (noun)
  The noun REGARD has 7 senses:

1. (usually preceded by 'in') a detail or point

2. paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

3. (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare

4. a long fixed look

5. the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)

6. a feeling of friendship and esteem

7. an attitude of admiration or esteem

  Familiarity information: REGARD used as a noun is common.

• REGARD (verb)
  The verb REGARD has 3 senses:

1. deem to be

2. look at attentively

3. connect closely and often incriminatingly

  Familiarity information: REGARD used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually preceded by 'in') a detail or point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

regard; respect

Context example:

it differs in that respect

Hypernyms ("regard" is a kind of...):

detail; item; point (an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole)

Derivation:

regard (connect closely and often incriminatingly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

attentiveness; heed; paying attention; regard

Context example:

he spends without heed to the consequences

Hypernyms ("regard" is a kind of...):

attending; attention (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)

Attribute:

heedless; unheeding (marked by or paying little heed or attention)

attentive; heedful; paying attention; thoughtful (taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regard"):

advertence; advertency (the process of being heedful)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

compliments; regard; wish

Context example:

my best wishes

Hypernyms ("regard" is a kind of...):

greeting; salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A long fixed look

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gaze; regard

Context example:

he fixed his paternal gaze on me

Hypernyms ("regard" is a kind of...):

stare (a fixed look with eyes open wide)

Derivation:

regard (look at attentively)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

esteem; regard; respect

Context example:

a man who has earned high regard

Hypernyms ("regard" is a kind of...):

honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regard"):

stature (high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A feeling of friendship and esteem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

regard; respect

Context example:

he inspires respect

Hypernyms ("regard" is a kind of...):

affection; affectionateness; fondness; heart; philia; tenderness; warmheartedness; warmness (a positive feeling of liking)

Sense 7

Meaning:

An attitude of admiration or esteem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

esteem; regard; respect

Context example:

she lost all respect for him

Hypernyms ("regard" is a kind of...):

attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regard"):

estimate; estimation (the respect with which a person is held)

• REGARD (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deem to be

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

consider; reckon; regard; see; view

Context example:

I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do

Hypernyms (to "regard" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Verb group:

construe; interpret; see (make sense of; assign a meaning to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regard"):

identify (consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else)

appreciate; prize; treasure; value (hold dear)

capitalise; capitalize (consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses)

make (consider as being)

disesteem; disrespect (have little or no respect for; hold in contempt)

esteem; prise; prize; respect; value (regard highly; think much of)

deem; hold; take for; view as (keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view)

idealise; idealize (consider or render as ideal)

reify (consider an abstract concept to be real)

abstract (consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically)

favor; favour (consider as the favorite)

relativise; relativize (consider or treat as relative)

like (feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard)

call (consider or regard as being)

consider (regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem)

include (consider as part of something)

reconsider (consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it)

reconsider (consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing)

receive (regard favorably or with disapproval)

expect (consider reasonable or due)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Look at attentively

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

consider; regard

Hypernyms (to "regard" is one way to...):

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam cannot regard Sue

Derivation:

regard (a long fixed look)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Connect closely and often incriminatingly

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

affect; involve; regard

Context example:

This new ruling affects your business

Hypernyms (to "regard" is one way to...):

bear on; come to; concern; have to do with; pertain; refer; relate; touch; touch on (be relevant to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regard"):

implicate (bring into intimate and incriminating connection)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

regard ((usually preceded by 'in') a detail or point)

 Context examples 

It appeared to me that he was more clever and cold than they were, and that they regarded him with something of my own feeling.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the strength of Darcy's regard, Bingley had the firmest reliance, and of his judgement the highest opinion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The latter regarded him wistfully, started away, then returned and whined softly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

No one would take me for love; and I will not be regarded in the light of a mere money speculation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then I had what I can only regard as an inspiration.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She regarded him with amazement unconcealed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Old Ebbits regarded me with a wistful face.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He is so abnormally clever that if he went off his head he would carry out his intent with regard to some fixed idea in a wonderful way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She had begun to think of him; she felt that she had, with great regard, with almost decided intentions; but she would now meet him with his own cool feelings.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have a great regard for him, I assure you: a gentleman-like, good sort of fellow as ever lived.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)