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look around

look around verb: to inspect a building or area.

Verb

look around (third-person singular simple present looks around, present participle looking around, simple past and past participle looked around)

  1. (idiomatic) To inspect a building or area.
    • We're interested in buying this house. Can we look around tomorrow?
  2. (idiomatic) To search a place.
    • I can't find my keys, so I'll look around.
  3. (intransitive) To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.
    • He heard a voice and looked around to see a man wearing dark clothes.
  4. (idiomatic) To take note of the situation; to make oneself aware.
    • Sure enough, when Jon appeals to centuries-old tradition binding the families of the north together, it comes off as good-hearted but short-sighted. Look around, Jon. It’s a new day. Queens rule the continent. They might rule the North, too, if tradition hadn’t made room for a bastard king. At a...2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, around.

look around meaning in Hindi and Arabic

look around in Hindi

to look around, watch alertly
ताकना tāknā

look around in Arabic

to inspect a building or area
تَلَفَّتَ talaffata

Forms of look around

third-person singular presentlooks around
present participlelooking around
past participlelooked around
pastlooked around
alternative formlook round

Words formed from look around

Questions about look around

What does look around mean?
Look around means to inspect a building or area.
What is look around in Hindi?
Look around in Hindi is ताकना (tāknā). See Look around meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is look around?
Look around is a verb.
What is the past tense of look around?
The past tense of look around is looked around.

Words near look around in the dictionary

  1. look ahere
  2. look alike
  3. look alive
  4. look and feel
  5. look and feels
  6. look around
  7. look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
  8. look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
  9. look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
  10. look askance
  11. look at

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Adapted from Wiktionary: look around (page history and authors); ताकना (Hindi) (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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