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look upon

look upon verb: to consider or regard something in a specific manner.

Verb

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

  1. To consider or regard something in a specific manner.
    • Some people look upon lexicography as their life's work.
    • I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. To gaze at something; to look on.
    • Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

look upon meaning in Tamil and Kannada

look upon in Tamil

உட்கொள்ளு

look upon in Kannada

ಭಾವಿಸು, ಪರಿಗಣಿಸು, ಕಾಣು

Synonyms of look upon

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Forms of look upon

third-person singular presentlooks upon
present participlelooking upon
past participlelooked upon
pastlooked upon

Questions about look upon

What does look upon mean?
Look upon means to consider or regard something in a specific manner.
What is look upon in Tamil?
Look upon in Tamil is உட்கொள்ளு. See Look upon meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is look upon?
Look upon is a verb.
What is the past tense of look upon?
The past tense of look upon is looked upon.

Words near look upon in the dictionary

  1. look to
  2. look under rocks
  3. look up
  4. look up and down
  5. look up to
  6. look upon
  7. look what the cat dragged in
  8. look what the cat drug in
  9. look what the cat's dragged in
  10. look what the wind blew in
  11. look who the cat dragged in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: look upon (page history and authors); look upon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); look upon (Kannada 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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