lookout
see also: Lookout
Pronunciation
Lookout
Proper noun
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see also: Lookout
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlʊkaʊt/
lookout (plural lookouts)
- A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.
- A session of watching for an approaching enemy, police, etc.
- We kept a lookout all night, but nobody came.
- A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, danger, etc.
- The raid failed when the lookout noticed the enemy group.
- Synonyms: lookout man
- A subject for observation; a prospect or view.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6
- Looking, seeing: search or searching; Looking-for (B.), expectation; Lookout, a careful watching for: an elevated place from which to observe: one engaged in watching. And, you know, she OUGHT to keep enough to pay for her season-ticket; but no, she comes to me about that, and I have to find the money."
- "It's a poor lookout," said Mrs. Morel bitterly.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6
- One's perspective, outlook; hence, one's responsibility. (used with a possessive pronoun or a noun in a possessive form).
- Every man's interest is his own lookout.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 27
- "Strickland's painting in my studio."
- "Well?"
- "Strickland can't work with anyone else in the studio."
- "Damn it all, it's your studio. That's his lookout."
- French: poste de guet
- Portuguese: ponto de vigia, posto de vigia
- Russian: наблюда́тельный пункт
- French: sentinelle, guetteur
- Portuguese: vigia, sentinela
- Russian: дозо́рный
- Russian: забо́та
Lookout
Proper noun
- CDP in Modoc County, California.
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