regardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
• ハイフネーション: re‧gard
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)d

語源 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.

名詞

regard (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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” または “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 […]

   • 1903, Kentucky Mines and Minerals Dept, Annual Report, page 186:

     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 […]

   • 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.
   • 1599, 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 606515358, [Act II, scene iv], page 77, column 1:

     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.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

   He is held in great regard in Whitehall.

5. (Reddit, vulgar) Slang for retard, a very bad stock trader.

同意語

• consideration, onlook, respect

反意語

• (concern for another): neglect

派生語

語源 2

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

動詞

regard (三人称単数 現在形 regards, 現在分詞 regarding, 過去形および過去分詞形 regarded)

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

   She regarded us warily.

2. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. [from 16th c.]

   I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.

   He regards honesty as a duty.

   I regard such a way of life with distate.

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     , [Act V, scene iv]:

     Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, / Your neece regards me with an eye of fauour.

   • 1857, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in Biographical and Historical Sketches, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 49:

     His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness, which, in spite of their admiration of his writings, was not unmixed with contempt.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

3. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 1:

     If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not.

   • 1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery:

     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.
   • 1615, George Sandys, A Relation of a Iourney begun An. Dom. 1610, London: Andrew Crooke, published 1637, page 16:

     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.

   • 1654 June 9, John Evelyn, William Bray, editor, Memoirs, new edition, London: Henry Colburn, published 1827, pages 70–1:

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

5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern. [from 17th c.]

   That argument does not regard the question.

   • 1821, edited by Curson Hansard, The parliamentary debates, Volume 3, page 809:

     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. (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, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Luke xviij:[2]]:

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

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

     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.

同意語

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

反意語

• ignore
• neglect

派生語

• regardable
• regarder
• regardless
• self-regarding

アナグラム

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