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English

Alternative forms

• regarde, reguard, reguarde (all obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??????d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??????d/
• Hyphenation: re?gard
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard, reward, guardian, and so on.

Noun

regard (countable and uncountable, plural regards)

1. (countable) A steady look, a gaze. [from 15th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750:

     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. [from 16th c.]
3. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]
   • 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:

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

   • 1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399:

     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.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

   He is held in great regard in Whitehall.

Derived terms

• disregard
• in regard
• in regard of
• in regard to
• with regard to

Synonyms

• consideration, onlook, respect

Antonyms

• (concern for another): neglect

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English regarden, from Old French regarder, reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.

Verb

regard (third-person singular simple present regards, present participle regarding, simple past and past participle regarded)

1. To look at; to observe. [from 16th c.]

2. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. [from 16th c.]
   • , [Act V, scene iv]:

     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. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive) To face toward.
5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern. [from 17th c.]
6. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. [from 16th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 18:2:

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

Derived terms

• regardable
• regarder
• regardless
• self-regarding

Synonyms

• (to look at): See Thesaurus:look
• (to consider): See Thesaurus:deem
• (to take notice of): See Thesaurus:pay attention

Antonyms

• ignore
• neglect

Translations

Anagrams

• Drager, Gerard, Grader, grader, red rag, redrag

French

Etymology

From Middle French regard, from Old French regard, from reguarder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a?/

Noun

regard m (plural regards)

1. look, glance

2. (uncountable) sight, gaze, eyes
   • 1885, Loreau, Heriette (trans.), L’Ami commun (Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens), Part IV, chapter 10:

3. manhole

Related terms

• regarder

Further reading

• “regard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• garder, Gérard

Old French

Alternative forms

• regart, resgard, resgart, regarde

Noun

regard m (oblique plural regarz or regartz, nominative singular regarz or regartz, nominative plural regard)

1. look; observance; watching (act, instance of looking at)

Descendants

• Middle French: regard
  • ? Middle English: regard, regarde
    • English: regard

References

• regard on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) +? -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs ("news"), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”). Often erroneously said to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

Pronunciation

• enPR: nyo?oz, no?oz, IPA^(key): /n(j)u?z/
• Homophones: gnus, nus (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Hyphenation: news

Noun

news (uncountable)

1. New information of interest.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Alls Well that Ends Well, Act II, sc 3:

     Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news for you: you have a new mistress.

   Is there any news about the storm?

   That was not much news in the press release.

2. Information about current events disseminated via media.

   Did you hear/read/see the latest news?

   The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.

3. (computing, Internet) Posts published on newsgroups

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

news (third-person singular simple present newses, present participle newsing, simple past and past participle newsed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.
   • 1874, Robert Cowie, Shetland (page 157)

     This remark was newsed abroad; whereupon the loyal authorities of Lerwick immediately had the revolutionary skipper arrested, on a charge of high treason.

References

• News (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• news on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• sewn, snew, wens

French

Noun

news m (plural news)

1. news magazine or programme

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• nyouz

Etymology

From English news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [njuz]

Noun

news

1. news, information

   Synonyms: nouvel, samachar

Polish

Etymology

From English news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?us/

Noun

news m anim

1. news (new information of interest)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) newsowy

Further reading

• news in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• news in Polish dictionaries at PWN