fond regard
- noun
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cariño
- The professor spoke with fond regard for the students who inspired her research.
Examples
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Many alumni hold a fond regard for their old university and often return for reunions.
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And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God; or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them and prevent their appearance to others.
Blog text (29) -
He looked back on his childhood with a fond regard for the happy memories.
Synonyms
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1.0
A strong feeling of care and liking for someone or something
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1.4
A gentle warm feeling for a person, animal, or thing
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1.0
A friendly, kind feeling in the way someone speaks or acts
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3.3
A strong feeling of liking and caring for someone or something
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4.2
A tender feeling of love and longing for a person or place
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3.3
Respect and admiration for someone or something
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2.8
A strong warm liking for a person or thing
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3.6
A strong liking for someone or something
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3.4
A strong feeling of love and respect for someone or something
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5.2
A warm, gentle feeling of care and concern for other people
A feeling of love and care for other people or animals
A feeling of kindness and affection toward someone
Antonyms
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'affectionate or warm feelings' is directly and transparently composed from 'fond' (showing warm affection) modifying 'regard' (feeling, respect or esteem). This adjective + noun combination follows normal compositional semantics and has clear parallels in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The expression fond regard comes from the picture of looking at someone with warm feelings: the word regard means to 'look at' or think about, and fond means to feel 'warm' or 'affectionate'. So having fond regard is like looking on someone with caring feelings, which is why it means 'affectionate or warm feelings toward'.