Regard Meaning
/ɹɪˈɡɑːd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA steady look, a gaze.
nounOne's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.
Sentence Examples
Your essay is admirable in regard to style.
With regard to the membership fee, you must ask the treasurer of the club.
Please show proper regard for the rules of the local park.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Many people ____ her as one of the greatest scientists of her time.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She held her mentor in the highest ____ and credited him with much of her professional success.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]"
— 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:
"We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard […]"
— 1903, Kentucky Mines, Minerals Dept, Annual Report, page 186:
"These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard."
— 1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399:
"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."
— 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 77, column 1:
"And They made the Moon, with his face wrinkled with many mountains and worn with a thousand valleys, to regard with pale eyes the games of the small gods, and to watch throughout the resting time of Māna-Yood-Sushāī; to watch, to regard all things, and be silent."
— 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Many people ____ her as one of the greatest scientists of her time.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She held her mentor in the highest ____ and credited him with much of her professional success.