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forelook

/fɔɹˈlʊk/

forelook verb: to look beforehand, to preview.

Verb

forelook (third-person singular simple present forelooks, present participle forelooking, simple past and past participle forelooked)

  1. To look beforehand, to preview.
  2. To look forward.

Noun

IPA/ˈfɔɹlʊk/

forelook (plural forelooks)

  1. A preview.
    • [T]o do one's best on Sunday to interweave that thought with the active life of an active town, and to inspirit both and make both infinite by glimpses of the Eternal Glory, seemed such an exquisite forelook into one's life! . . . If this vision could only have lasted.1859 September, Edward Everett Hale, “My Double; and How He Undid Me”, in Atlantic Monthly
  2. Someone or something previewed.

forelook meaning in Bengali

forelook in Bengali

আগে থেকে দেখা, পূর্বরূপ দেখা, সামনের দিকে তাকানো, পূর্বরূপ, আগে থেকে দেখা কেউ, কিছু

Forms of forelook

Verb
third-person singular presentforelooks
present participleforelooking
past participleforelooked
pastforelooked
Noun
pluralforelooks

Origin of forelook

From Middle English vorloken, forluken, equivalent to fore- + look.

Questions about forelook

What does forelook mean?
Forelook means to look beforehand, to preview.
What is forelook in Bengali?
Forelook in Bengali is আগে থেকে দেখা, পূর্বরূপ দেখা, সামনের দিকে তাকানো. See Forelook meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is forelook?
Forelook can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce forelook?
Forelook is pronounced /fɔɹˈlʊk/.
What is the past tense of forelook?
The past tense of forelook is forelooked.

Words near forelook in the dictionary

  1. foreloads
  2. forelock
  3. forelocked
  4. forelocking
  5. forelocks
  6. forelook
  7. forelooked
  8. forelooking
  9. forelooks
  10. forelove
  11. foreloved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forelook (page history and authors); forelook (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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