regard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   Give the family my kind regards.

2. 2
   noun

   a feeling of friendship and esteem

   They mistook my regard for love.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.

   This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To look at; to observe.

   She regarded us warily.

7. 7
   verb

   To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.

   I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

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.