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- [loo k-out]
- /ˈlʊkˌaʊt/
- /ˈlʊk.aʊt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [loo k-out]
- /ˈlʊkˌaʊt/
Definitions of lookout word
- noun lookout Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse. 1
- noun lookout A place from which to keep watch or view landscape. 1
- noun lookout observation post 1
- noun lookout awareness, alert 1
- noun lookout person: keeps watch 1
- countable noun lookout A lookout is a place from which you can see clearly in all directions. 0
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Origin of lookout
First appearance:
before 1690 One of the 49% oldest English words
First recorded in 1690-1700; noun use of verb phrase look out
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Lookout
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
lookout popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
lookout usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for lookout
noun lookout
- sentry — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- outlook — the view or prospect from a particular place.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- watcher — a person who watches or who keeps watch.
verb lookout
- shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- see after — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- keep an eye on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
Antonyms for lookout
noun lookout
- indifference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
- heedless — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
- thoughtlessness — lacking in consideration for others; inconsiderate; tactless: a thoughtless remark.
- neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
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