look round

verb

To inspect a building or area.

“I can't find my keys, so I'll look round.”

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Meanings

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

present singular third person looks round · participle present looking round · participle past looked round · past looked round · alternative look around

  1. idiomaticTo inspect a building or area.

    We're interested in buying this house, can we look round tomorrow?

    1 more example

    He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

    1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. idiomaticTo search a place.

    I can't find my keys, so I'll look round.

  3. idiomaticintransitiveTo turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.

    He heard a voice and looked round to see a man wearing dark clothes.

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APA

look round. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/look%20round

MLA

“look round.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/look%20round. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “look round,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/look%20round.

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