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looke

looke is the obsolete spelling of look.

Meaning of look

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) As an intransitive verb, often with “at”.
    • They kept looking at me.
  2. (colloquial, transitive) As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
    • Look what you did to him!
  3. To appear, to seem.
    • It looks as if it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like rain [is coming].
  4. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
    • What a fright you looked in that hideous outfit.
  5. (intransitive, often) To search for, to try to find.
  6. To face or present a view.
    • The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush.

See all 21 meanings of look

Forms of looke

Verb
third-person singular presentlookes
present participlelooking
past participlelooked
pastlooked
Noun
plurallookes

Questions about looke

What is looke the obsolete spelling of?
Looke is the obsolete spelling of look.

Words near looke in the dictionary

  1. lookbooking
  2. lookbooks
  3. lookdev
  4. lookdown
  5. lookdowns
  6. looke
  7. looked
  8. looked a fright
  9. looked after
  10. looked ahead
  11. looked ahead to

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looke (page history and authors); look (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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