regards

Noun (1)

regard (countable and uncountable, plural regards)

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.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750
2. One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.
3. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
   • This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144
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.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...

   Synonyms:

   esteem, repute

Noun (2)

regard (plural regards)

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

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