1) a person, place etc regarded and spoken of as a notable example (of a (bad) quality) (byword)

2) (especially) an official with authority to examine books, magazines, plays, films etc and to remove anything regarded as immortal or in other ways undesirable (censor)

3) a being regarded or worshipped as having power over nature and control over human affairs; the creator and ruler of the universe, according to Christians, Jews and Muslims (god)

4) a state of mind or spirit; one of the groups of forms that a verb may take to show whether things are regarded as certain, possible, doubtful etc (mood)

5) (something, a happening, regarded as) a sign of something good or warning of evil fortune (omen)

6) the part of a human that is not the body and cannot be touched; a person regarded as the ideal (of some virtue or quality) (soul)

7) a single person, thing or group regarded as complete; an amount used as a standard of measurement (unit)