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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A garment size for persons of average height and weight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("regular" is a kind of...):
size (the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A regular patron
Example:
a bum who is a Central Park fixture
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("regular" is a kind of...):
frequenter; patron (a regular customer)
Derivation:
regular (relating to a person who does something regularly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A dependable follower (especially in party politics)
Example:
he is one of the party regulars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("regular" is a kind of...):
follower (a person who accepts the leadership of another)
Domain category:
government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A soldier in the regular army
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("regular" is a kind of...):
soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In accord with regular practice or procedure
Example:
her regular bedtime
Classified under:
Similar:
usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)
Derivation:
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not constipated
Synonyms:
regular; unconstipated
Classified under:
Similar:
diarrheal; diarrheic; diarrhetic; diarrhoeal; diarrhoeic; diarrhoetic (of or relating to diarrhea)
lax; loose (emptying easily or excessively)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to a person who does something regularly
Example:
a steady drinker
Synonyms:
regular; steady
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
frequent (coming at short intervals or habitually)
Derivation:
regular (a regular patron)
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Officially full-time
Example:
regular students
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
full-time (for the entire time appropriate to an activity)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Not deviating from what is normal
Example:
her regular bedtime
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
normal (conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal)
Derivation:
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Sense 6
Meaning:
In accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
Example:
regular duties
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
well-ordered (ordered well)
weak ((used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection)
uniform (evenly spaced)
timed (regularly spaced in time)
standard; stock (regularly and widely used or sold)
official; prescribed (conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline)
lawful; rule-governed (according to custom or rule or natural law)
first-string (of members of a team; not substitutes)
Also:
rhythmic; rhythmical (recurring with measured regularity)
symmetric; symmetrical (having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts)
systematic (characterized by order and planning)
Attribute:
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Antonym:
irregular (contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice)
Derivation:
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Sense 7
Meaning:
(of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
irregular ((of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement)
Sense 8
Meaning:
(used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
Example:
the regular army
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
standing (permanent)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Antonym:
irregular ((used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Conforming to a standard or pattern
Example:
a regular electrical outlet
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
standard (conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind)
Derivation:
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Occurring at fixed intervals
Example:
the even rhythm of his breathing
Synonyms:
even; regular
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
steady (not subject to change or variation especially in behavior)
Derivation:
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Regularly scheduled for fixed times
Example:
regular bus departures
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
scheduled (planned or scheduled for some certain time or times)
Derivation:
regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)
Sense 12
Meaning:
Symmetrically arranged
Example:
a regular polygon
Synonyms:
even; regular
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
symmetric; symmetrical (having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts)
Derivation:
regularity (a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles)
Sense 13
Meaning:
Often used as intensifiers
Example:
he's a veritable swine
Synonyms:
regular; veritable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
typical (exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category)
Context examples:
Scientists compare the amount of heavy to regular water in comets.
(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)
He may brush his hair too regular, or too un-regular.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She's my girl, and a regular good one she is, too.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was sleeping soundly, and his heart rose and fell with regular respiration.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He said the case, so far as he could see, was more in your line than in that of the regular police.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But he did not follow his regular programme.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Stable angina has a regular pattern.
(Angina, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
To be tied down to the regular payment of such a sum, on every rent day, is by no means desirable: it takes away one's independence.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She could not but consider it as absolutely unnecessary, and even improper, that Fanny should have a regular lady's horse of her own, in the style of her cousins.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“But every thing of that kind,” said Emma, “will soon be in so regular a train—”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
