Definition of "regard" in English

noun

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. One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.

3. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.

4. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.

   • He is held in great regard in Whitehall.

verb

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.
   • 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.

3. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.

4. (transitive) To face toward.

5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern.

   • That argument does not regard the question.

6. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.

noun

1. (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of retard.