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Definition of Look forward
1. Verb. Expect or hope for. "I look to hear from you soon"
Definition of Look forward
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To anticipate or expect; especially, to expect something to be pleasant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Forward
Literary usage of Look forward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... See must insist on these tacts and look forward to some efficient remedy for
the injustice and indignity of present conditions. ..."
2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1880)
"Besting upon the facts of the past, the Church must look forward, with the eager
eye of hope, to the facts of the future, when our Lord shall come, ..."
3. History of Political Conventions in California: 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"That under our present administration we look forward with hope to the speedy
completion of a Pacific railroad, and the adoption of the free homestead ..."
4. Letters of Edward FitzGerald by Edward FitzGerald (1894)
"We look forward to The Lammermoor, and Old Mortality before long. I made another
vain attempt on George Eliot at Lowestoft, Middlemarch. To JR Lowell. ..."
5. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"The Dutch therefore might look forward to a renewal of the French invasion of 1672.
These designs of Louis were the more alarming because his power was so ..."
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