Definition of Look around

1. Verb. Look about oneself. "Look around to see whether you can find the missing document"

Generic synonyms: Look

Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Around

looing
look
look'd
look-alike
look-alikes
look-down, shoot-down
look-in
look-out
look-over
look-see
look across
look after
look ahead
look alike
look and feel
look around (current term)
look at
look away
look back
look backward
look before you leap
look book
look daggers
look down on
look down one's nose
look down upon
look for
look forward
look forward to
look here

Literary usage of Look around

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1873)
""i THINK I'LL look around" A second objection often met is sometimes expressed by the phrases, "I want to. look around before I decide," or "I'll think it ..."

2. The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each by Abby Maria Hemenway, George W. Wing, Carrie Elizabeth Hemenway Page (1871)
"For look at the picture hero drawn, and then look around you and see for yourselves if a change has not come over the prevailing customs of the people. ..."

3. School Reading by Grades: First[-eighth] Year by James Baldwin (1897)
"look around, and tell me what you can see. 1. We are in school. Here are the busy children at their desks. 2. Here is my desk, -and there is the door, ..."

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