look upon

present singular third person looks upon · participle present looking upon · participle past looked upon · past looked upon

1. To consider or regard something in a specific manner.

   Some people look upon lexicography as their life's work.

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   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

   Synonyms: account, appraise, count, esteem, see, censure, consider, deem

2. To gaze at something; to look on.

   Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!