Collins English-English Dictionary

regular ['rεgjυlə]

1. 1. adj normal, customary, or usual

2. 2. adj according to a uniform principle, arrangement, or order

   trees planted at regular intervals

3. 3. adj occurring at fixed or prearranged intervals

   to make a regular call on a customer

4. 4. adj following a set rule or normal practice; methodical or orderly

5. 5. adj symmetrical in appearance or form; even

   regular features

6. 6. adj [prenominal] organized, elected, conducted, etc, in a proper or officially prescribed manner

7. 7. adj [prenominal] officially qualified or recognized

   he's not a regular doctor

8. 8. adj [prenominal] (intensifier)

   a regular fool

9. 9. adj [US and Canadian] [Spoken] likable, dependable, or nice (esp in the phrase a regular guy)

10. 10. adj denoting or relating to the personnel or units of the permanent military services

    a regular soldier

    the regular army

11. 11. adj (of flowers) having any of their parts, esp petals, alike in size, shape, arrangement, etc; symmetrical

12. 12. adj (of the formation, inflections, etc, of a word) following the usual pattern of formation in a language

13. 13. adj [maths] (of a polygon) equilateral and equiangular

14. 14. adj (of a polyhedron) having identical regular polygons as faces that make identical angles with each other

15. 15. adj (of a prism) having regular polygons as bases

16. 16. adj (of a pyramid) having a regular polygon as a base and the altitude passing through the centre of the base

17. 17. adj another name for analytic

18. 18. adj another word for actinomorphic

19. 19. adj [Botany] [postpositive] subject to the rule of an established religious order or community

    canons regular

20. 20. adj [US] of, selected by, or loyal to the leadership or platform of a political party

    a regular candidate

    regular policies

21. 21. adj another word for cubic

22. 22. n [crystallog] a professional long-term serviceman in a military unit

23. 23. n [Spoken] a person who does something regularly, such as attending a theatre or patronizing a shop

24. 24. n a member of a religious order or congregation, as contrasted with a secular

25. 25. n [US] a party member loyal to the leadership, organization, platform, etc, of his party

26. 26. n [Etymology] C14: from Old French reguler, from Latin regularis of a bar of wood or metal, from regula ruler, model