regarding

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US/ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/UK/ɹɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ/

preposition

Concerning, respecting.

Very commonScrabble 12

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of regard
preposition
  1. Concerning, respecting.

    Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).

    2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12

    Synonyms: about, apropos, with respect to

nounregarding (plural regardings)

plural regardings

  1. The act by which something is regarded or observed.

    […] God Invisible by the assumption of His Manhood was laid open to the regardings of our sight.

    1844, Pope Gregory I, Morals on the Book of Job
    1 more example

    […] to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step, that their dreams would have been of the crunching teeth of sharks. But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the odd second mate, came up from below […]

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

prepositionConcerning, respecting.

Origin

Translations

Ancient Greek περί
  • περί (perí)concerning
Arabic بِالنِّسْبَة لِـ, بِالنِّسْبَة إِلَى
  • بِالنِّسْبَة لِـconcerning
  • بِالنِّسْبَة إِلَىconcerning
  • فِي صَدَد (fī ṣadad)concerning
Bulgarian отно́сно
  • отно́сно (otnósno)concerning
Chinese Mandarin 關於 /关于
  • 關於 /关于 (guānyú)concerning
Czech ohledně
  • ohledněconcerning
Danish vedrørende
  • vedrørendeconcerning
Esperanto pri
  • priconcerning
Finnish suhteen, koskien
  • suhteenconcerning
  • koskienconcerning
French quant à, concernant
  • quant àconcerning
  • concernantconcerning
  • à propos deconcerning
  • au sujet deconcerning
German bezüglich, mit Bezug auf
  • bezüglichconcerning
  • mit Bezug aufconcerning
Hebrew בנושא, באשר ל־
  • בנושא (benosé)concerning
  • באשר ל־ (beashér le-)concerning
Hindi विषयक
  • विषयक (viṣyak)concerning
Irish i dtaca le
  • i dtaca leconcerning
Italian in quanto a
  • in quanto aconcerning
Japanese ...に付いて, ...に関して
  • ...に付いて (... ni tsuite)concerning
  • ...に関して (... ni kan shite)concerning
  • ...に対して (... ni tai shite)concerning
Korean ...에 관해서, ...에 대한
  • ...에 관해서 (...-e gwanhaeseo)concerning
  • ...에 대한 (...-e daehan)concerning
Persian دربارهٔ
  • دربارهٔ (darbâre-ye)concerning
Polish odnośnie
  • odnośnieconcerning
Portuguese sobre, quanto a
  • sobreconcerning
  • quanto aconcerning
Romanian privind, în ce privește
  • privindconcerning
  • în ce priveșteconcerning
  • în ceea ce priveșteconcerning
Russian относи́тельно, каса́тельно
  • относи́тельно (otnosítelʹno)concerning
  • каса́тельно (kasátelʹno)concerning
  • оconcerning
  • насчёт (nasčót)concerning
Scottish Gaelic ri linn, mu dheidhinn
  • ri linnconcerning
  • mu dheidhinnconcerning
Spanish respecto a, respecto de
  • respecto aconcerning
  • respecto deconcerning
  • respectandoconcerning
  • respectivo/pertinente/respectante/atañedero aconcerning
  • atañendoconcerning
  • en/por lo que respecta aconcerning
  • para conconcerning
  • con lo deconcerning
  • en relación conconcerning
Swedish rörande, angående
  • rörandeconcerning
  • angåendeconcerning
  • beträffandeconcerning
  • gällandeconcerning
Tamil குறித்து
  • குறித்து (kuṟittu)concerning
Turkish ilişkin
  • ilişkinconcerning
Ukrainian що́до, відно́сно
  • що́до (ščódo)concerning
  • відно́сно (vidnósno)concerning
  • стосо́вно (stosóvno)concerning
Vietnamese về
  • vềconcerning
Yiddish װעגן
  • װעגן (vegn)concerning

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APA

regarding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regarding

MLA

“regarding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regarding. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “regarding,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regarding.

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