Usually means: Conforming to a standard pattern.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. regular: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. regular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. regular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. regular: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Regular, regular: Wordnik
  6. regular: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. regular: Wiktionary
  8. regular: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. regular: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. regular: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. regular: Dictionary.com
  12. regular: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. regular: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Regular (geometry), Regular: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Regular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. regular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. regular: Rhymezone
  18. regular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. regular: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. regular: Free Dictionary
  21. regular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. regular: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. regular: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. regular: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. regular: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. regular: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. regular: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. regular: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. regular: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Agate Lexicon (No longer online)
  4. -regular, regular, regular, regular, regular, regular, regular, regular, regular, regular: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. regular, regular: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Regular, regular: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Regular: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
adjective:  Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
adjective:  (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
adjective:  (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
adjective:  Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
adjective:  (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
adjective:  (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
adjective:  Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
adjective:  (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language.
adjective:  (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
adjective:  (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
adjective:  Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
adjective:  (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
adjective:  (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
adjective:  (crystallography) Isometric.
adjective:  (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
adjective:  (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
adjective:  (commutative algebra, not comparable, of a local ring) Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
adjective:  (algebraic geometry, not comparable, of a scheme) Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
adjective:  (obsolete, not comparable, of a ring) A von Neumann regular: such that every left module (over the given ring) is flat.
adverb:  (archaic, dialect, nonstandard) Regularly, on a regular basis.
noun:  A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
noun:  A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
noun:  A member of an armed forces or police force.
noun:  A frequent customer, client or business partner.
noun:  (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
noun:  Anything that is normal or standard.
noun:  A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
noun:  One who does not regularly attend a venue.
noun:  A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
noun:  A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.

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