regard

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. (countable, uncountable)One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.
3. (countable, uncountable)A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.

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

   “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 […]”

   “These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.”

4. (uncountable)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.”

   “He is held in great regard in Whitehall.”

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

verb

1. (transitive)To look at; to observe.

   “She regarded us warily.”

   “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.”

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. (archaic, transitive)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.”

   “I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.”

4. (transitive)To face toward.

   “Seated on a peninſula which regardeth the maine land ; ſtrong by nature, and fortified by Art : adorned heretofore with magnificent buildings ; and numbered amongſt the paradiſes of the earth, for temperate aire, and delightfull ſituation.”

   “We pass’d by[…]that exceedingly beautifull scate of my Lord Pembroke, on yᵉ ascent of an hill, flank’d with wood, and reguarding the river ; and so at night to Cadenham, yᵉ mansion of Ed. Hungerford, Esq.”

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

   “That argument does not regard the question.”

   “My lords, the question thus proposed by your lordships to the Judges must be admitted by all persons to be a question of great importance, as it regards the administration of justice.”

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

   “Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.”

   “Suppoſe they be in number infinit, Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline, All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: And more regarding gaine than victorie: […] Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.”